ws REporRT OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
barns thus repaired, although adding very considerably to the 
expense. In fact it will be seen that we have practically substi- 
tuted new barns for the old tumble-down structures which so 
disfigured the grounds of the Station. There have been placed 
two gable windows upon the old cattle barn, and a cupola upon 
the tool barn, which adds greatly to the architectural effect of the 
whole series of buildings, which being painted alike present a not 
unattractive appearance. 
Secure stalls for five bulls have been built, the liquid manure 
from which flows into a system of vitrified tile drains which are | 
also connected with the pig pens and stables for cattle in the new 
barn. By this means the liquid manure is brought into a series 
of reservoirs beneath the manure platform (36 by 100 feet) south 
of the new barn. Upon this platform, which has a foundation of 
cobble stone and grout finished off with cement, the manure from 
the different stables is stacked. It is estimated that the saving of 
fertilizing material from fifty cattle by means of this contrivance 
will in a single year repay the entire expense of the platform. 
A new poultry-house has been constructed, with all the modern 
conveniences for testing standard breeds of fowls. Already 
_ experiments are in progress for the purpose of ascertaining the 
actual and relative cost of producing eggs and fattened poultry. 
All the barns and the out-house fences connected with the 
Station have received a coat of paint, which has greatly improved 
their appearance. 
The roads and drive-ways about the barns hae been graded 
and graveled. 
Pig yards in connection with the pens alone await completion 
before the work directed by the board at their last meeting shall © 
have been fully accomplished. 
There have also been constructed eight paddocks, southeast of 
the new barn, to provide out-of-door exercise for the several breeds 
of cattle which have been secured for purposes of experimental 
investigation by the Station. 
During the progress of the work your committee have repzatedly 
visited the Station, and advised with the’ director as to its 
prosecution. 
JAMES McCANN, 
CHARLES JONES, 
Executive Committee. 
Geneva, N. Y., Nov. 6, 1889. : 
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