402 [ AssuMBLy S 
All of the above calculations were made from actual counting. — 
Ten separate ounces of each variety were counted, and the average 
is given in the table above. A very close estimate of the relation 
existing between the different ounces, which has not varied to any 
considerable extent in all the varieties, may be formed from the fol- 
lowing figures, which are given as illustrative of the weights of ten 
ounces of several varieties: 
Pringle’s White White Sibley’s Two- 

Alexander's 
No. 2 Oats. Hybridized Probsteier | Zeland oats. Imperial Rowed 
Hulless oats oats. barley. barley. 
A | 1, 200 9,284 | 1,030 1, 168 1, 223 183 
9} 1, 255 9,174 | 1,056 1, 181 A eee 743 
3 15-155 2, 288 1, 035 1, 183 1, 186 733 
eed IF 2498 et 1 089.) od 8 le 748 
for 1-991. 2} "9, O91 1,054 | 1,180 | 1,169 750 
Bali: 207-2) <9, 261: |) 15108.) a 165 gee 757 
To) 1.199. +1, 2,:268 | 4 062 1, 196 1, 227 782 
Ree O17. 0 O° 9007 e007 ota as 1, 189 750 
9| 1,183 2, 200 1, 077 1, 211 1, 194 759 
10 1, 188 2, 169 1, 089 1, 180 i Beas Be 748 


The weights of the bushels calculated were based upon thirty-two | 
pounds as the standard for oats, and no change in the number of 
pounds per bushel was made in the case of the hulless varieties. 
The weight of barley was estimated at the rate of forty-eight pounds 
to the bushel. 
REport oF THE FARMER. 
Much work has been done on the farm in the way of improye- 
ment, many of the fences which were in a poor condition having 
been removed, and the balance of the fencing that was left put into 
thorough repair. The old hawthorn hedge upon the west side of 
the farm has been grubbed up, the ground leveled and replaced by 
a barbed wire fence, two posts to the rod, a top rail of hemlock, and 
three wires. This, on account of the length (over 100 rods) and 
the size and ragged condition of the hawthorn plants, was a work 
of some magnitude and considerable expense. An acre of osier 
willows has been stubbed out and the refuse burned, a sufficient plat 
being left growing for the purposes of the farm. Stones have been 
removed from the fields in quite large quantities and used in build- 
ing the embankments and abutments of the bridge which has been 
built to span the ravine which separates the farm into two portions. 
Much clearing work of a miscellaneous character has also been ac- 
complished upon various parts of the farm and experimental grounds. 
The crops grown on the Station farm this year comprise wheat, — 
