REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

When this property was purchased by the State, the dwelling, 
which was very spacious and expensive, was considerably out of 
repair. The barns, stables and other outbuildings were in still 
worse condition, and so badly arranged that the expense of storing 
crops therein and removing them for threshing or feeding often 
absorbed a great portion of their entire value. They could not 
be repaired nor reconstructed with economy, but some of them 
might answer, at least temporarily, for storing and exhibiting the 
acricultural implements which we were assured would be donated 
to the Station by our leading manufacturers, and others might be 
used for the valuable varieties of swine, of which the Station 
already possesses a considerable number, and possibly others 
might be used for poultry, though it will be better to build new 
for this purpose, with sufficient land and suitable arrangements 
for developing this important industry. 
We were urged by representatives of associations having the 
most valuable herds of cattle in the country to prepare fit and 
suitable stables and stalls for selected specimens of these valuable 
animals, so as to make a perfect test of rearing and feeding repre- 
sentatives of the various breeds, and, for the first time in the 
history of our agriculture, to subject all to the same care and the 
same system of feeding. If we had not been subjected to great 
and unexpected delays by the extraordinary season, which com- 
pelled us to work our mechanics inthe storm for more than three- 
fourths of the time, and in overcoming the obstacles to a secure 
