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For tools, including straw-cutter, wagon-box, garden cultivator,

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seeds, vegetable and flower, and for nursery and lawn,... "repairs in tool room and fruit room,

$125 85

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purchase of horse, and expenses attending the same,
blank book, postage, stationery, &c., for office,

206 80

7 20

"blacksmithing,

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"wood,

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hired labor, by the season, $203 50; other labor, $81 50,..
feed for team, including hay,

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account of College, including carpenter work, furniture,
two stoves, &c.,.

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finishing green-house and barn, and painting both buildings

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Board of hired men at College Farm house, 200 days,
Board of laborers at College building hall,..

Add cash expenditures,

78 00

22 51

15 05 100.00

52 10

$842 95

1,816 98

$2,659 93

The above amount embraces all expenditures in this department, and includes expenses for wood, furniture, janitor work, &c., for College Hall, and all expenses for permanent improvements of grounds, buildings, &c.

VALUE OF PRODUCE.

The cash sales of produce have amounted to $418 24. Of this amount, $72 61 were received from sales of green-house plants, and the Superintendent has "no doubt that this branch.

of the department, when once fully stocked, will more than pay all expenses attending its maintenance." It may be stated here, that two hundred and six varieties of vegetables, embracing twenty-three species, have been cultivated in the garden this year, giving the students an opportunity of learning their characteristics and peculiar qualities.

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The needs of the College, in regard to additional dormitories, have been already set forth. If we were to take the matter wholly on the ground of economy, or the amount of benefit which the Institution might confer in proportion to the expenses, the policy of affording accommodations to a larger number of students is obviously correct. The same faculty, the same farm and garden, laboratory, &c., may as well give instruction to three hundred students as to a smaller number. Estimates for such a building as is required are herewith submitted.

In regard to new farm buildings, there is much need of a piggery adapted to the keeping of several breeds of swine, in such a manner that results showing their relative profits may be obtained. The building (before alluded to) lately provided for experimenting with swine, is only of a temporary character, and can accommodate but a small part of the swine which it is necessary to keep on the farm.

The building which has heretofore been occupied as a horsebarn is by no means well adapted to the purpose. It might readily be converted into a tool-house and work-shop-which

is also wanted-if suitable accommodations for horses were provided elsewhere.

Estimates for a dormitory building are herewith submitted. Estimates are also submitted in reference to the current expenses of the College for the years 1869 and 1870.

DONATIONS TO THE COLLEGE FOR 1868.

From the AMES PLOUGH COMPANY, Boston, Mass.;

American Hay-Tedder.

From H. B. WILBAR, Syracuse, N. Y.;

Bullard's Hay-Tedder.

From AULTMAN, MILLER & Co., Akron, Ohio;

Senior Buckeye Reaper and Mower, with dropping attachment.

From H. P. WESTCOTT & Co., Seneca Falls, New York;

Westcott's Patent Butter-Pail.

From GEO. P. ALLEN, Woodbury, Conn.;

Allen's Patent Weeding Hoe-two sizes.

From R. P. HOSNER & Co., Lansing, Mich.;

Ball's Plough; Shovel Plough; Double-Shovel Cultivator; Hand-Weeding Cultivator; Horse Hay-Fork; Burdick's National Feed-Cutter through J. F. Bryan & Bros., Detroit, Mich.

From DART & DAVIS, Lansing, Mich.;

Ground Back Cross-cut Saw.

From J. R. ROBERTSON, Syracuse, N. Y.;

Excelsior Root-Cutter.

From BERRY & BROTHERS, Detroit, Mich.;

Sample of Berry's Superphosphate of Lime; sample of coarse ground bone; sample of fine ground bone.

From the N. W. FERTILIZER COMPANY, Chicago, Ill.;

Sample of Baugh's Superphosphate of Lime.

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Brown's Grain Drill.

From A. A. JENNE, Lansing, Mich.;

Right to use Dorsett's mode of protecting hay and straw.

From PROF. M. MILES, Lansing, Mich.;

Samples of Prize Grains at the Provincial Exhibition at Hamilton, Ontario, 1868; also, samples of Grains at the Exhibition of the Mich. State Agl. Society, 1868.

From G. W. SMITH, Grand Rapids, Mich.;

Specimens of Gypsum, Geodes and Fossils.

From R. M. SLOCUM, Student;

Iron Pyrites and Crinoids.

From MARK FLANNIGAN, Detroit, Mich.;

Specimen of superior Cotton Batting. From Prof. J. C. HOLMES, Detroit, Mich.;

Seeds of Ailanthus, or Tree of Heaven.

From CAPT. COLLINS, U. S. N., through Landreth & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Sixteen packages of foreign Seeds.

From the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, D. C.;

Packages of various Field and Garden Seeds.

From HoN. Z. CHANDLER;

Congressional Directory, Fortieth Congress; Speech of Hon. W. H. Stewart on National School of Mines; Patent Office Report, 1865, three volumes; Report of Commissioner of Land Office, 1866; Report Dept. of Agriculture, 1866; Report on Commerce and Navigation, 1866; Report on Commercial Relations, 1866; Mineral Resources of the United States; Impeachment Documents, three volumes.

From THORNTON A. JENKINS, Chief U. S. Bureau of Navigation;

Astronomical and Meteorological Observations at the United States Naval Observatory, 1865.

From HoN. AUSTIN BLAIR;

Coast Survey, 1865; Commerce and Navigation, 1866.

From HoN. J. M. HOWARD;

Patent Office Report, 1866, three vols.; Report on International Coinage. From HON. JUSTUS GAGE, Dowagiac, Mich.;

Niles's Register, vols. XXXV to LV, inclusive.

From HoN. A. S. WELCH;

Mineral Resources of the United States.

From HUGH C. THOMSON, Sec. Ontario Provincial Board of Agriculture, Toronto;

First volume Canada Short-horn Herd Book.

From the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE;

Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XV; Smithsonian Report, 1867.

From the COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION;

Report of Department of Education, 1867-8.

From ORANGE JUDD & Co., New York;

"How Plants Grow," by Prof. S. W. Johnson.

From A. M. FITZHUGH, Bay City, Mich.;

Specimen of Coal from the well of the Atlantic Salt Manufacturing Co.

From R. F. BUSH, Bay City, Mich.;

Barrel of specimens for Museum.

From the STATE DEPARTMENT, Michigan;

Debates of the Constitutional Convention, 1867, two volumes.

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