 EicutH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station. 
REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
In pursuance of a resolution of the board at their last meeting, 
that the plans submitted for their consideration by the drrdetae 
should be substantially carried out, for which purpose and others 
an appropriation of $10,860 was made by the last Legislature, 
enumerating the following items for which provision was made, 
bulletins, salaries of herdsman, assistant herdsman, poultryman, 
clerical assistant, library, farming and scientific implements, farm 
, improvement, microscopical division, clerical division, manure 
platform, poultry house and piggery, your executive committee 
have the. following report to submit: 
There has been expended for bulletins, $356.45; for farming 
and scientific implements, $712.47; for farm improvement, $508 ; 
_ for the clerical division, $47.50; for the manure platform, $983.98 
for the piggery and poultry-house, $3,068.58 ; and for salaries, $648. 
Your committee found that the condition of the old barn was 
such as to require practically entire reconstruction, especially of 
_ that portion known as the “old cattle barn,” the timbers being 
decayed, and the foundation walls in a tottering condition, so that 
most of them required entire removal. The basement of the two 
barns has afforded ample room for all the requirements of a well- 
ae appointed — piggery with twenty-four pens arranged in such a 
- manner that they may be readily cleaned and the liquid manure 
_ secured without loss or trouble. The upper portion of these 
barns adds very largely to the storage capacity for grain, hay and 
farm implements, and for the latter purpose it is now being 
utilized. 
The old cattle barn and the one adjacent has been entirely 
_ resided, and it seemed best to place a metal roof over the three 
