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spring water ; and have commenced to build two reservoirs for the 

 reception of the sewerage from the Institution. 



The plan made from a survey of the farm induces your committee 

 to hesitate before proceeding further. By the plan it will be seen that 

 the farm is an ill-shapen affair, and is one that your committee would 

 not select as being likely to succeed as a model or experimental farm. 



The barn is located on a point of the farm, instead of the centre ; 

 and the consequence is, that all the manure must be hauled a con- 

 siderable distance to the fields, and the hay and other crops an equal 

 distance to the barn. The cattle must be driven nearly half a mile 

 to and from the pasture ; and these operations, and many others like 

 them, involve much expense of time and labor. Your committee, 

 therefore, before recommending any course of improvement for the 

 coming year, would earnestly recommend the purchase of more land, 

 for the sake of improving the shape of the farm, as well as to bring 

 more tillage land near the barn. Such lands, moreover, are actually 

 wanted to increase the resources of the farm in some proportion to 

 the increase of the wants of the Institution. It is known to the 

 Board that we must have more farm buildings. The farm house is 

 wholly inadequate to the wants of the farm, and the workmen have 

 been boarded out, for want of accommodations, all the past sum- 

 mer. Your committee have taken measures to ascertain that much 

 of the land contiguous to the farm can be had at a reasonable 

 price. By the purchase of these lands some tenements and out build- 

 ings will be obtained, which, though not such as the committee would 

 desire, will yet answer the purposes of the farm for some years, till a 

 suitable farm house can be erected. It is a matter of great impor- 

 tance that these lands should be purchased immediately. Since the 

 State Reform School has been located on the grounds at great 

 expense, it is not probable that it will ever be removed. The number 

 of its inmates and its usefulness will, on the other hand, be greatly 

 extended. This additional land, also, will give employment - to the 

 boys for time to come, and the products will always be needed at the 

 Institution. 



. Your committee arc, therefore, induced to await the decision of the 

 Board and of the Legislature before proceeding to lay out the general 

 improvements to be undertaken for the ensuing year. 

 . Respectfully submitted. 



B. V. French. 

 Simon Bbown. 



The remarks of the committee on stock will also show that 

 the resources of the farm, within its present limits, are not 



