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Show FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. or til I'tah Agricultural College Eiperl-ment Eiperl-ment Mtattnn. Governor A. L. Thomas received this niorniug a copy of the first annual report re-port of the Utah Agricultural College Lxperiment station at Logan. The report re-port is from W. S. McCornick, president presi-dent of the board of trustees to the governor. The expenses of the college for 18'JO were as follows: Salaries $1441.25; labor $2534.83; building $.'000; chemical apparatus ap-paratus and supplies $1014.30; supplies for experiment work, $708. 8H; farm implements im-plements and machinery, $S02.70; library li-brary $H.43; live stock. $775; postage and oliice supplies $ti(i.77; freight and express, $317. 0U; miscellaneous expense-$100.11; expense-$100.11; total, $10,000. The appropriation appropria-tion from tho United States to the college col-lege was $10,000, similar institution-receiving institution-receiving $15,000. The report of the director, J. W. Sanborn, shows that twelve acres have been devoted to horticultural hor-ticultural work, twenty acres sown to varieties of pasture grass, twenty-four devoted to a series of farm crop rota lions, and the balance of the ground was staked off into permanent plats foi experimental purposes. Other import ant items of improvement are also mentioned. men-tioned. There are two bulletins set forth in the report. The first gives the results of plow trials. The second is a comprehensive com-prehensive bulletin ou "Dynamometer Tests with Wagons." The college is in a flourishing condition. |