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One two-horse wagon,

One horse-cart,

Shelvings for horse-cart, and a hand-barrow for straw.

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27 50

28 00

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10 50

10 00

10 25

20 00

10 50

8.50

One Knox horse hoe,

2 25

2.50

One share Coulter harrow, (the old style,)

16.00

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Ropes, pulleys. grapples, &c., for unloading fork,

11 37

Paid mason for walls of hay scales,

11 00

Paid labor, freight, traveling expenses, &c., of man who put up

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One digging fork, four prongs,

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Two wooden straw forks, 75 cents and 90 cents,
Two garden spades, 90 cents and $1 30, .

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2 20

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Two mowing scythes and hangings, $1 60 and $2 15,

3 75

One brier scythe and hanging, $1 40,

1 40

Two whetstones and one rifle,

32

Fifteen hay caps, material and making, 1868,

19 03

Fifty hay caps, 1869, cost, muslin, besides the donations, $20 20;

thread, 30 cents; freight, 80 cents; making, $5 00, .

26 30

Brick-bats, and wire to hold caps to place,

1967

1 80

1 35

Two corn baskets,

Two half bushel measures, 60 cents and 75 cents.
Two willow peach baskets,

One willow peach basket,

Ten fine salt sacks, 50 cents,

Twenty-five two-bushel grain bags, 45 cents,

Fourteen empty boxes to hold grain and potatoes,

Half gross pint glass bottles for samples of grain,

Half gross corks for the same,

Five cattle cribs; cost: material, $29 24; making, $17 20,

Imported cow, "Sea Gull," has a heifer calf now about ten

months old ("Sapphire "), valued over

Heifer "Kate" has now puny calf two weeks old,

A ladder made,

A case made to hold papers, books, &c.,

1 30

80 5900

11 25

5 95

8.00

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46 44

100 00

5 00

75

10 00

As to stock on hand I cannot make a positive statement, as we have not all the grain threshed.

Grain, &c., on hand.

We had about eleven acres of grass for hay, which made about one and a half tons to acre, partly used and partly on hand.

There were some fifteen acres of oats that averaged about thirty-five bushels to acre.

Twelve acres of corn that made about five hundred bushels of grain. Two and a half acres of oats and barley mixed, that will make about thirty-five bushels to acre.

One acre of pure barley made about eighteen bushels, and about eighteen acres of wheat that averaged about twenty-five bushels to acre.

About three acres potatoes that averaged about one hundred and ten bushels per acre.

We have about twenty-four acres of winter wheat in ground that looks now about .8 compared with last year's crop at this time; also, about one and a half acres of winter barley, now looking pretty well.

We have sold some seed wheat and some corn to our workmen; the balance of the above crops generally on hand or partly fed.

I cannot see how to attach prices to these uncertainties.

AUDITOR'S REPORT.

The undersigned, appointed by the board of managers to audit the accounts of Thomas M. Harvey, superintendent of the Eastern Experimental farm, make statement of the following results for the period from the 1st of fourth month to the 1st of twelfth month, 1869:

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Detail of cash received at Eastern Experimental Farm from 1st of fourth month, 1869, to 30th of eleventh month, inclusive:

Potatoes sold, one hundred and seventy-four and one quarter bushels,

$147 201

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Bacon, one hundred and forty-four and one-half pounds,

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Peaches, paid for,

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Out doors grapes, eight hundred and sixty-eight and one half pounds,

63 57

Ice, sixty-seven, salt, sixteen, sugar, one hundred and twenty

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Muslin, (thin,) sold, forty-eight and one half by six and one half,

Spading fork sold,

$0 72

4 85

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3 16 2.00 66 00 100 00

375

Virginia steer sold,

Bull, Emperor, sold,

Received for work done on roads,

Received for keeping cattle and horses, .

94 74

Received from J. Lacy Darlington, president agricultural

society, .

150 00

Received from George W. Lefever, vice president agricultural

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Received from J. S. Hope, (West Brandywine club,)

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Received from Agricultural College, (belonging to last year,). 1,000 00 Received from Agricultural College for current year,

By Mr. Mylin:

500 00

$3,623 02

Q. For what time did these donations extend, beginning with sixty-eight and continued how many years?

A. To the first of the year 1870. At last George Lefever, who was very much in earnest about the thing, and especially in raising money, took it in his head that every man he met would have to give him something toward the support of this farm, and asked every man to pay him one dollar that he met. And almost every man he met did give him one dollar before he got away from him, and that accounts for so many one dollar subscriptions. Here, I see, are some that only paid fifty cents, (looking at the account,) and as you get down near to the bottom of the list, I see Evan Rodgers gave twenty dollars. The Chester County Agricultural Society, one hundred dollars, and the Oxford Farmers' Club, twenty dollars, and the West Grove Farmers' and Gardeners' Club, sixty-nine dollars. Q. Do you know what the sum total of the cash donations is?

A. No, sir; I do not. I have not footed it up. I did count it up once, but it has not been put down in here in the book, and I could not tell without adding it up. Then they have given donations of agricultural implements also.

By Mr. Hall:

Q. I want to ask Mr. Harvey whether the amounts of these contributions are not credited in the reports published by the State Agricultural College-report of the trustees, I mean.

A. Yes, sir; I think they are. In addition to the committee have already mentioned, we had a committee, of which one was Job H. Jackson, that were to purchase implements, and this money was used mainly for that purpose. At the time we sold the farm we sold out our own personal property, the total amounting to $1,000, more or less. Besides, we got a great deal of stock from the agricultural societies that were not paid for at all—

that were given to us-so we started with what we could get in that way, and what we didn't have and could not get along without we had to borrow from our neighbor farmers. In this way this farm was stocked and started. There was a great many things given us in the shape of farming implements, so that we had obtained an abundant supply of more than we needed of some things and some things we needed very much we hadn't at all. I will refer you to the report of the college of 1870 to what was wanted here. By Mr. Mylin:

Q. Is that your report of the Eastern Experimental farm for the college?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. Will you give title of it?

A. "Report of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania for the year 1870." This is the third one.

Q. Will you now refer to the fertilizers? I see here are mentioned fertilizers on grass, &c.

A. On pages 63 and 64 of the report of 1869 you will find where the experiments were with commercial fertilizers on potatoes. I presume we had in all about one hundred and fifty different kinds of fertilizers. We got everything in the way of fertilizers that we could get, for it was the object of the exeprimental farm to get everything that came out. The idea was to try everything and keep a correct account of the results of it, so as it would be a benefit to every person that was interested in scientific farming. We tried these different kinds of fertilizers on potatoes in many different ways. We planted the potatoes in more than a hundred different ways. I think some were planted two inches deep, some seven inches; and then we planted potatoes that were cut at different times for seed, went through with them in the same way by planting some two inches, some seven, some three and one half, and some were cut four weeks before planting, some cut at the time of planting; different ways of planting them. Then we experimented on wheat. There were fifty varieties of wheat. This is no guess work. It is the actual results of experiments we tried on this farm. So far as I was concerned I watched everything with my own eyes. I did not trust any one to do it without my supervision.

Q. I presume all the products of the farm were credited to it?

A. Yes, sir; everything that was taken off the farm was sold. As a matter of course we planted a great many things that turned out practically useless, but that was the great object of experimental farming, to find out what was worth while doing and what was not. That is what the farmers of Pennsylvania wanted to know. For instance, in planting corn we were desirous of knowing at what depth corn planted would grow, at what depth grow most rapidly, and what depth it would not grow at all; so we planted some corn seven inches deep; we planted a certain number of grains of corn seven inches; only one grain came up out of twenty-four but amounted to nothing; at six inches only six grains came up out of twenty-four, and, coming on down to one inch and a half, nineteen grains out of the twenty-four grew. We demonstrated by giving experimentsthat to plant corn deeper than two inches there would be less than half of it not likely to grow, and that the best depth for planting corn was from one to one and a half or two inches deep, which was worth a considerable for a farmer to know. Well, now I have gotten on, I have got you properly started with this experimental farm. It takes over one hundred pages to describe all the experiments of these experiments on this farm in 1870. In 1881 it takes twenty, and then there is almost two pages of it taken up by an essay on "Hardy Catalpa of Central Pennsylvania," and the re

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