Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 59]

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This leaves a large balance of this appropriation to meet the projected improvements of the coming year. A statement will be found appended, of the several items of expenditure from these appropriations : The total amount of warrants drawn for the year is $48,030 59 Receipts of I. C. R. R. donation. 1,162 60 Total expenditures for year* $49,199 19 The report of Prof. Bliss and the Bookkeeper will present you, in detail, the work accomplished on the farm and experimental grounds. It is due to this important department of our work, and to those who have it in charge, to state that the chief stock farm came into possession of the University in a very dilapidated condition. The former owner says that his chief motive for selling, was that the land was no longer in a state to pay for the labor expended upon it. The buildings and fences were also in a ruinous condition, and a heavy expenditure was necessary before the farm could be brought into a state of proper tillage. Almost every rod of fence on both farms has been either rebuilt or thor. oughly repaired during the past year. Nearly five miles of hedges have been planted, completely inclosing the farms, except some short spaces, where the condition of the ground would not permit it. The farm house has been repaired and a well dug. In pursuance of the plans adopted at the last annual meeting, the stock farm is being laid down to grass, as the easiest and most profitable mode of culture for our purposes. Among the crops raised are the following : Ten acres of common yellow corn. Five acres of mammoth corn. Onefourth, acre of mammoth white corn. Fourteen acres of small, early white corn. Six acres of strawberry corn. Burr's mammoth sweet corn—one oz. seed. One-fourth acre extra early sweet corn. Brill's extra early sweet corn. Boston late sweet corn—one oz. seed. Pop corn—one-third acre.

POTATOES.

Early York, eight acres. Early Goodrich, one-half acre. Peach Blows, one-half acre. Shaker Blue, two quarts seed. Neshannock, three quarts seed. White Sprout, three quarts seed. Early Rose (garden), one pound seed, Garnet, Chili (garden). Rusty Coat Pink-eye. Harrison, one and one-half bushels seed. Sebee.

WHEAT.

Forty acres Fife spring wheat, sixty bushels of seed. Four acres of Mammoth spring wheat, six bushels of seed. Little May, White May, Alabama White and Genesee Red—two bushels of each. Besides these, there were forty-five acres of Surprise oats, which yielded 1,204 bushels by measure, weighing thirty-eight pounds to the bushel. One hundred and twenty acres of meadow were mowed, producing 175 tons of hay. One hundred and twenty-five acres were fallow plowed, and a large amount of labor was expended in the general improvement of the ground.

* See Appendix C.