Show agricultural COLLEGE the work done and what it is proposed to do from bulletin no dihe utah agricultural college we glean the following ot the work done at the opening of the past spring it had eighty five acres of upper bench land covered with sage brush and the hope of an appropriation from congress the ground has been plowed cleared of hushes and is mostly cleared of rocks is fenced and has fino buildings under contract five now going up one is a bank barn ga feet square and 85 feet high and is surrounded by a silo root cellar hog house engine house and wagon shed all of the work is to be done in this barn from a common centre its crops go in by power and are taken out for use by gravity it has a fine laboratory building for officers for chemical research and for other station work it will have the use of a new and model farm and diary house distinguished it is believed by its conveniences for household and diary work two new laborers cottages are connected with the station the chemical department has a very complete outfit while a round of appliances ances for farm and horticultural experimentation peri have been collected this work has been aided by a territorial appropriation for buildings farm t and stock it is proper to say that the territory has manifested a very liberal spirit towards both the station and the college a continuation of chich will soon place both of them expenditures tures being equally wise among the best of the country the spirit of the law hi been the guide of the trustees the fore opening a fair field for the investigators and teachers associated with the college and station eighty five acres of the farm are now covered with crops forty acres are serving the combined purpose of inquiry and economic barmine far mine regarding these acres as experimental acres for such a chev were farm is divided into the following lines of inquiry fifteen acres are sown to eight varieties of grasses for a pasture of mixed brasses er asses in to test the avalne valne of mixed grasses versus single pasture grasses ten sections are sown to as many parities vari ties of grass except the tenth half acre which is mixed grasses these are to be grazed by lots of similar animals in each and growth of animals on each are to be weighed |