Superintendent's Report.

The yield of the best varieties of potatoes in the garden has been 400 bushels per acre. On the farm a field of forty acres has produced over 26,000 bushels of roots, largely mangel wurzels and beets, with about 10 acres of rutabagas. This is the largest yield, for a large field, that I have seen recorded in this country, being over 650 bushels per acre for the whole field. The mangels averaged over 700 bushels per acre. I hand you here with the reports of the Farmer, Gardener, Matron and Steward, and statistical tables, leaving the executive and building committees to report the work done in departments under their respective charge.

I thus close my report of the year's labors with feelings of gratitude to the Board for their combined sympathy and co-operation in all the labors of the year. The Hospital was never in so good repair or condition as now. Nearly all important repairs or improvements so urgently needed in past years have been successfully accomplished, so that the customary expenditures required in every public institution to keep abreast of the times, no great outlays will be needed after the work is done for which we now ask appropriation, save for current expenses.

Respectfully submitted,

MENDOTA, Wis., October 1, 1880.

D. F. BOUGHTON, Sup't.