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4, An artificial pond has been formed by inclosing a space 
seventy-five by 200 feet along and aside of the course of the creek 
passing through the farm, by which an ample supply of ice was 
obtained for filling our ice-house. It may be that this pond will 
also be utilized for the growing of carp. 
5. The buildings have all received a new coat of paint with the 
exception of the dwelling house, upon which the tin gutters 
have been replaced by new ones, and a coat of paint applied to 
them. | 
6. The southern boundary of the farm has been carefully ascer- 
tained ‘by survey, and a line fence built sufficient for the protec- 
tion of the property and crops of the station from the encroach- 
. ments of the cattle of adjoining neighbors; and a sidewalk of 
stone has been laid from the dairy to the rear entrance of the 
chemical laboratory, as also from the front of the laboratory to » 
the street, thus completing these approaches to this building. 
7. Several lines of drain-tile have been laid during the past year, 
mainly to carry off the accumulations of surface water in the 
spring. 
During the past year there have been published, in editions of 
| 10,000 copies of each, ten bulletins, aggregating 336 pages, giving 
information from time to time of the results of the investigations 
_ being pursued at the station. Three additional bulletins are 
- now in press. 
~ A farmers’ bulletin, being practically an address given by the 
director at one of the farmers’ institutes, entitled “ What the New 
‘York Agricultural Experiment Station is doing for the farmer,” 
has been widely distributed at the several farmers’ institutes held 
throughout the State, and has been very helpful in calling the 
- attention of our farmers to the work being done in their ‘behalf, as 
a is evidenced by the greatly increased demand for the bulletins of 
os the station, which demand has resulted in the exhaustion of the 
Y supply of several of these bulletins, 
a 5 Hor/the information of those who have not secured this farmers’ 
§ bulletin, it has been embodied in the report of the director, and 
a ‘ will obviate the necessity of your committee referring in detail 

