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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

Of the Farm Department, for the year ending December 1, 1868.

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STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

Of College Farm, for the year ending December 1, 1868.

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Labor of men and teams, @ $4 per day,... $992 72

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HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.

Prof. Prentiss, the Superintendent of this department, reports that with the exception of injury from drought, in some cases, the season was favorable to most garden products.

The apple orchard bore but little fruit this year, owing to causes which operated to lessen this crop over a large portion of the State. The trees have been brought to good forms by judicious pruning, and the cultivation of the ground has made them very thrifty and large of their age. The pear orchard has done very well, especially the standard trees, some of which are very fine. A few of the trees have fruited, and in a year or two more we may expect returns of some value from the orchard.

From the fruit garden, a good crop of grapes and a bountiful crop of strawberries were obtained. Some dwarf apple trees are in fine condition, and fruited more in proportion to their age and size than standards.

The young evergreen trees have grown well, and will be ready for transplanting next spring. Several hundred seedling apple trees have been grown, which will be valuable for various practical illustration to classes in Horticulture.

Permanent improvements have been pushed forward in this department to a considerable extent. More of the rough and uneven ground between the highway and the College building, and on the south and west side of the building, has been broken up and thoroughly smoothed, and portions seeded to grass. The ground in the young groves has been smoothed, making them, as they were intended to be, ornaments to the place.

By alterations in the basement of the College building, the tool-room for the Horticultural Department has been enlarged and made more convenient, an office and seed-room provided, and a much needed fruit and store-room has been made, intended, when completed, to be frost-proof.

The cash expenditures in this department, to December 1, were as follows:

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