Nov., 1910.] ANNUAL REPORTS. 13 



funds for the current expenses of the farm department. For the year ending 

 June 30, 1909, during which period the animal husbandry division was set off 

 from the farm department and conducted as a separate department, the sum 

 of s2()0 was appropriated for the current expenses of the farm department, 

 and $700 for the expenses of the animal husbandry department. The item- 

 ized accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the- farm department for the 

 several years may be obtained from the president's financial report to the 

 trustees as printed in the last three biennial reports of the college. 



Farm Improvement Account. 



In view of the fact that the expenditure for the various 'permanent farm 

 improvements which were being made from year to year did not appear as 

 such in the regular financial reports a separate account of them has been kept 

 in this office since July, 1906. The following is the summary of such accounts: 



July, 1906, to July, 1907, farm improvement work $1 ,092.04 



July, 1907, to July, 1908, farm improvement, work 1 , 576 . 01 



July, 1908, to July, 1909, farm improvement work 259.25 



Total $2,927.30 



Paid, with Experiment Station Funds: 



Sheep shed S84 . 04 



Sheep fence 305 . 37 



Corn crib 67.88 



Poultry houses 85.98 



Poultry fence 76 . 10 



Sheep barn 1,136.15 



Total $1,755.52 



Paid, with Farm Department Funds: 



Cementing barn cellar $28 . 95 



Herdsman room 147 . 35 



New horse stalls 21 . 35 



Ditches and drains 323 . 63 



Graveling barnyard 38 . 50 



New wagon box 17 . 95 



Xew hay rack 23 . 14 



Iron sluice way ' 10 . 00 



Cleaning up White lot 109.41 



Pasture fence 68 . 03 



Miscellaneous 383.47 



Total $1,171.78 



Among the miscellaneous expenditures are such items as, cutting brush, 

 removing old stone walls, digging out stumps and trees, picking stubble stones 

 and constructing and graveling farm roads. In the fall of 1904 the sum of 

 $213.93 was expended for a system of underdrains in one of the experimental 

 fields; this was paid for by the Experiment Station and is not included in the 

 above account. Altogether more than a mile of farm roads have been built 

 and 8,760 feet of drain tile installed since 1903. An average of about $400 per 

 year of farm department funds and nearly $600 per year of Experiment Sta- 



