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foundation, we might to-day exhibit from twenty to twenty-five 
head, the best specimens of registered animals of the most valu- 
able breeds in the country, all the gift of our enterprising and 
liberal breeders.. Letters continue to pour in upon the director to 
this time, urging us to hasten to completion the accommodations 
for these cattle. We are now only waiting for the proper set of 
our cement floors and the thorough drying of the basement story. 
As the extra appropriation of $8,000, granted at the close of the 
late session of the Legislature, for constructing a new barn, the 
purchase of live stock, agricultural implements, etc., became 
available, we were satisfied that not much, if anything, need be 
paid for the stock or implements, as the owners thereof had 
decided to donate them ; and this left us sufficient funds to con- 
struct a model barn, containing a spacious and perfectly ventilated 
stable, an elaborate and improved “silo,” and convenient rooms 
for meteorological observations, all of which are provided for in 
the new building. While its cost has absorbed about all the 
money provided by the State for this purpose, we can not dis- 
cover where any saving could have been made without impairing 
the utility of the provisions made for these various objects. 
While we have carefully studied to avoid all extravagance and 
useless expenditure, we have kept in view that all practical 
farmers who visit the Station entertain the opinion that this prop- 
erty, on which nature has bestowed its choicest bounties, and on 
which the former proprietor expended not less than fifty thousand 
dollars in buildings and other improvements, should be made in, 
all respects a model farm, and that the experiments by its mana- 
gers should not only embrace all of the scientific objects which 
have hitherto occupied the main attention of the director, but 
extend to every acre of the farm and every building, every other 
improvement, and every animal reared upon the place. For the 
