væ of the codling moth. Strips of woolen cloth, six to eight inches wide, were wrapped about the trunks of numbers of the trees. These were examined occasionally, and from five to forty insects were found in each cloth each time.

Some improvements have been made in the buildings. The garden barn has been moved into a more convenient and less conspicuous position. The farm horse-barn and piggery have been completed, and are giving excellent satisfaction. A large ash-house has been constructed of brick, for the use of the boarding hall and dormitories.

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The College apiary shared the fate of nearly all the apiaries throughout the State during the winter of "71-2. In Februit was found that the colonies were rapidly dying in the cellar, where they had been placed, as usual, in the beginning of winter. Seven colonies were entirely dead, and the remaining five exceedingly weak. In all the hives there was abundance of honey, but it was thin, and unpleasant to the taste. It was evident that the bees had diarrhoea, as the hives were besmeared, and from all arose an intolerable stench. The live colonies were immediately removed from the cellar, and placed on their summer stands. Believing the cause of disease to be poor quality of honey, one colony was placed in a clean hive, and given honey taken from the hives the previous fall. This colony began immediately to improve, while all the others died in a short time. The one colony left improved so rapidly that by the first of June it was strong enough to be divided. These two gave another strong colony the first of July, and the parent stock was again divided the first of August. Thus an increase has been made during the year of three colonies from one, and in addition to this, these colonies made 412 pounds of honey.

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DONATIONS TO THE COLLEGE, 1872.

From the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE :

Annual and Monthly Reports of the Department; Bulletin Essex Institute; Diseases of Cattle in the United States; Proceedings of National Agricultural Conventions-36 copies; four quarts Cooley Corn; eight quarts White Australian Spring Wheat; eight quarts White Schonen Oats; eight quarts Saxonian Barley; two packages Sugar Beets-White Silesian; two packages Sugar Beets-Vilmorin's Improved; eight quarts Silver Hull Buckwheat; sixteen quarts Tappahannock Winter Wheat; sixteen quarts White Touzelle Winter Wheat.

From the POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT:

Postal Laws and Regulations.

From the UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE:

Patent Office Gazette, Vol. 2, No. 1.

From the BUREAU OF EDUCATION:

Circular of Information for February, 1872.

From the HON, Z. CHANDLER:

Report of Commissioner of Agriculture, 1870; copy of his Speech on Amnesty; copy of Senator Frelinghuysen's Speech on Sale of Arms to the French; six packages Tropical seeds; Congressional Globe, Parts, 1, 2, and 3 of 1870–71.

From REAR ADMIRAL B. F. SANDS:

Astronomical and Meteorological Observations for 1869. From the SECRETARY OF STATE, Lansing:

Joint Documents, 1871, Parts 1 and 2; Senate Journal, 1872; House Journal, 1872; Report of the State Pomological Society, 1871; Compiled Laws, Vol. 1; Edmonds' Impeachment Trial, Vols. 1 and 2; Senate Impeachment Journal, 1872.

From SELLEW, ADAMS & Co., Gowanda, N. Y. :

One Gowanda plow.

From J. W. PORTER, Class 71:

Two specimens granite from the Soldiers' Monument, Detroit.

From C. O. PERKINS, Becket, Mass.:

Farmer's Accountant.

From Prof. W. J. BEAL:

Eight specimens Frear's Patent Artificial Building Stone; one specimen Portland, England, Cement; one specimen Michigan Lake Shore Sand; one specimen Joliet Marble; two specimens Lake Superior building stone; one specimen of Marble from Quincy, Ill.; two specimens of Pot-holes in Joliet Marble; two specimens Pressed Brick, Philadelphia and Buffalo; eleven specimens relics from Chicago fire; one specimen Sponge from Massachusetts Bay ; one specimen Skeleton Frog; one specimen Skeleton Bat; five specimens Fossil Plants; Small Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gardener, Vols. II. and III., 1870 and 1871.

From E. J. INGALLS, Menominee :

A box of specimens from the iron regions. From WILSON, HENKLE & Co., Cincinnati :

Ray's series, Higher Algebra; Ray's series, New Elementary Algebra; Schuyler's Complete Algebra; White's Arithmetics (three); Schuyler's Logic; Harvey's Grammars (two); Eclectic Geographies, (three); Cole's Institute Reader; Kid's Rhetorical Reader.

From M. S. SMITH & Co :

One Eight-day Office Clock.

From FRANK WELLS, class of '73:

Two stuffed birds-Cardinal Grosbeak.

From ROBERT BARKER, Lansing:

One cream-colored Brick.

From A. H. HAWLEY, ESQ., Mason:

One jug Maple Syrup.

From Dr. M. MILES:

Mineral Regions of Lake Superior; Senate Documents, Mich., 1839,

1 vol., 1840, 2 vols.; 1841, 1 vol. From Prof. BENJAMIN PIERCE, Supt: Report U. S. Coast Survey, 1868.

From MISS HOWARD, Lansing:

Twenty-four grains of Wheat from Bitlis, Armenia, Turkey in Asia,

sent by Miss Ely, missionary.

From J. M. TOWNSEND:

Seeds of Wild Oats from Sable Island, near Nova Scotia.

From the COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND PUBLIC WORKS, Ontario, Canada:

Annual Report of Agriculture and Public Works, 1870, 1871; Report

of Fruit Growers, 1869, 1871; Report of Entomological Society, 1871; Report on Colorado Potato-Beetle.

From J. M. BURTCH, Grand Ledge:

Five specimens Fossil Rocks.

From CHARLES J. NALL, Detroit:

Nall's Mill—a combined fan-mill, seed-cleaner, and smut-machine. From Mr. J. H. HUBBARD, Lansing:

Cocoa Nut with outer covering, from Carthagenia.

From SMITH & DIXON, Port Byron, Cayuga Co., N. Y.:

One sample steel skeleton Harvester guard.

From LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers:

Examination of Cannon Liddon's Bampton Lectures.

From Hon. S. O. KNAPP:

Specimens of Fossil Wood, from Nashville, Tenn.

From THE PROPRIETORS:

Catalogue of Slamsondale Herd of Short-Horns, 1872-Geo. Murray, Racine, Wis.

From ADAM LECOMPTE, Columbus, Ohio:

Fifty scions Old Adam Apple.

From A. J. COOK:

Specimens Petrifactions and Cocoons of Silk-moth, from California; specimens of Sulphur and Cinnabar, from Sonoma County, California; Coal, Fossil Shale, and Iron Pyrites from Corunna coal mines; specimens of Lotus from Raisin River, Monroe County; Buckeye and Paw Paw, from Benton Harbor; Fossils-Pentameris, Goniatites, Orthis, Trilobites, Spirifer, Holysiter, Orthoceratite, Feldspar, Horned Fish.

From H. A. ENGELHARDT, Author:

"Beauties of Nature combined with Art."