10 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Ill the above statement, no crops except those produced 

 by the management of the farm, are included. 



It appears from the above, that the farm has produced 1,309 

 bushels of Indian corn, 112 tons of English hay, and 204|- 

 bushels of wheat, rye and oats, more, since the farm came into 

 the hands of the Board than it did the five years previous, or a 

 money value of at least 1637 a year greater in these crops 

 alone during the last five years, than during the five preceding 

 years. This large increase of crops is fairly due to the 

 increased capacities of the farm, since, as already shown, the 

 other products, as milk, beef, pork, &c., have also increased 

 rather than diminished under the management of the Board. 



But the practical management of the farm is by no means 

 the extent of the operations of the Board. When the farm 

 came into their charge many permanent improvements were 

 absolutely required, some of which admitted of little delay, to 

 say nothing of the necessity of carrying on these improvements 

 as a means of employing the large number of boys which the 

 Board had agreed to Avork and pay for at the rate of ten cents 

 a day of six hours. 



The amount expended for these improvements in 1851, was 

 11,935.09. Of this sum, 12,032.62 was paid for building a 

 piggery, slaughter-house and store-house ; $*1,066.35 for building 

 a grainery, sheds, &c. ; and $1,836.02 for the labor of boys and 

 teams in laying walls, removing stones, etc. ; all of which sums 

 were imperatively required as subsequent experience has clearly 

 shown. And these expenditures were needed and must have 



