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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
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1872.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 83
tillage, of $190 80. The wheat and grass are looking re-
markably well, and give promise of good results,
The extensive products of garden and orchard, are more
than sufficient to meet the demands of our large College-
family.
Preparation has been made for planting a peach orchard in
the Spring, the ground (4 acres) having been put in good
order in the meantime.
A herd of cows (chiefly Ayrshire) furnish an ample quantity
of milk for the use of the College, and a partial supply of
butter during the Spring and Summer.
Owing to the limited extent of grass raised, beef cattle are
generally bought and. slaughtered at the College, at a cost of
from 9 to 10 1/2 cts. per Ib. net.
On the 19th ultimo, there were slaughtered thirty-one
hogs, (a cross of the Berkshire and Chester breeds), raised
at the College, which weighed 5472 pounds, and averaging
176 1/2 pounds each.
From as careful ami accurate an estimate as it was possi-
ble to make, of the cost of producing this amount of porky
it is found not to have exceeded 2 1/3 cents per pound.
This result is owing, in much part, to the proper utilizing
of the slops, (about 60 gallons per day), and other offal
from the kitchen and garden.
Because of these advantages, (the home production of
much that is consumed in the house), we are enabled to put
the terms for board, &c., down to the exceeding low rates
mentioned in the catalogue. The farm is now well supplied
with working animals, such as horses and mules, and also
with wagons, carts, and agricultural implements, all of
which are kept in thorough repair by the workshop owned
by the College.
The United States Government required that the proceeds
of the "Land Scrip" donated to the College, should be paid
over to i her without diminution, as did also the State law;
and yet, through some inadvertence in the details of the
bill, the College has been obliged to pay a State tax for the
amount invested in Southern Relief Bonds.. Likewise, in
violation of what seems to be the spirit of the same law,
one-tenth of the entire proceeds of this giant were put into
the State Treasury. It is thought to be necessary only to
call the attention of the present Legislature to these loots,
in order to have this tax remitted, and that clause, in the
law referred to, repealed.

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