REPORT OF FARM SUPERINTENDENT... 
The farm superintendent has been employed a large portion of 
the time for the past year in attending to the details of the stable 
work, finishing the basement of the new barn, building the manure 
platform, and in the general work of the farm’and on the experi- 
mental plats. 
He has also kept the meteorological od soil temperature 
records and had charge of the lysimeters. 
The work on the farm has gone on in harmony with the plans 
laid out in last year’s report. While crops produced have in the 
main been satisfactory, the conditions of the season have been 
such that there was an alternative between’ seeing"them choked 
with weeds or putting more than an ordinarily profitable amount 
of work into cultivation by hand. The latter was chosen and the 
farm is now as clean of weeds, generally speaking, as could be 
expected after so favorable a season for their growth. The wild 
carrot has appeared and although ithas been suppressed wherever 
found in bloom, we can hardly hope to escape a general crop of 
it with so much as is allowed to produce seed near the farm, for 
its seeds will be blown about and lodge from the winds where 
many a one will find a foothold in spring. 
The continued prevalence of wet weather encouraged the growth 
of fungous plants to such an extent that.a parasite of this kind 
entirely ruined the oat crop of this farm, and the crop of this 
region is reported as “light,” presumably from similar cause. 
Among minor improvements on the farm has been the removal 
of all interior fences which are not needed to inclose the stock. 
The old fence boards were made into panels on stormy weather 
when little else could be done. These are ready to help inclose 
the orchard temporarily while pigs or sheep are turned in to con- 
sume windfalls and thus lessen insect.depredators. 
*F, E. Emery. 
