REPORT OF FARM SUPERINTENDENT. 
The time of the farm superintendent has been largely occupied 
in permanent improvements of the water supply, also on drains 
and water pipes on the Station grounds, feeding experiments, and 
in superintending the labor on the Station farm. Much time has 
also been devoted to the new barn. 
Some improvements on the farm have been the breaking up and 
cultivation of the area south of the plats lying between Castle — 
street and Castle brook. A crop of corn has been taken off which 
will make a fair return for the labor expended and leave the land 
in much better condition than before. 
A new waterway has been constructed across the farm by 
cooperation with the Van Dusen Nursery Company. This gives’ 
them a natural outlet for their lowland waters, and it is hoped will, 
with a little embankment on the west side of the old Preémption 
road, prevent the unsightly gullying of one of the Station’s fields 
by flood water. This main also gives an outlet for the drainage of 
the southwest corner of the farm. There are about 800 feet of this 
main ditch laid on the west side of the farm. Its eastern terminus 
is in the open ditch and run, extending to Castle brook, south of 
the tenement-houses. Eventually it should all be laid with tile . 
and closed up. At present, however, it is impracticable, owing to 
a row of elm trees, the roots of which in their search for water 
would soon choke up the tiles and render them useless. A small 
willow patch has been cleared up and returned to cultivation. 
Som AND RoraTion oF Crops. 
The heavy clay soil which constitutes the main part of the farm 
is capable of producing fair average crops under favorable con- | 
ditions. It is proposed to increase the fertility by a rotation of 
crops, with at least one application of manure from the stables 
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*¥F, KE. Emery. 
