16 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



Cabbages. — One acre. Use eight cords barn yard manure' 

 cultivated in, fifty bushels ashes, two hundred pounds bone 

 dust brushed in. 



Parsnips. — Half an acre manured as above. 



Squashes. — Half an acre, marrow variety, manured as above. 



FRONT OF INSTITUTION, 



Cabbages. — Half an acre sown broadcast. 

 Strawberries. — Three-fourths of an acre. 

 Garden Sauce. — Manured at discretion, 



BELOW THE VEGETABLE GARDEN, 



Indian Corn. — Two acres to be sown in drill for fodder. 

 Use eight cords piggery manure, six hnndred pounds DeBurg's 

 super-phosphate per acre, one-half in the drill and one-half at 

 first hoeing. 



FRONT OF THE FARM HOUSE. 



Barley. — One acre and a half manured heavily and seeded 

 down. 



GARDEN WEST OF THE INSTITUTION. 



Wheat. — One acre and a half sown with wheat and manured 

 at discretion. 



At the annual meeting held January 18th, 1859, the Super- 

 intending Committee of the farm submitted the following 



REPORT. 



The committee commenced the farm operations of the past 

 year by an inquiry into the probable wants of the institution, 

 and after mature consideration, laid out the spring and sum- 

 mer's work according to them. 



They directed that the lot known as the rye field, should be 

 sown with oats, in four lots of two acres each. The chairman, 

 however, on a careful survey of the piece, found it to contain 

 but six acres. It was, in consequence, necessary to reduce the 

 size of the lots to an acre and a half each. The oats were 

 sown broadcast on the 27th and 28th days of April, and har- 

 rowed in as follows : No, 1 was seeded at the rate of five bushels 

 per acre ; No, 2 at the rate of four bushels ; No. 3 at the rate 



