Igg BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



tage to be derived from sucli public establishments over indi- 

 vidual enterprise, and that is tlieir pci^manency. Individual 

 enterprise usually stops with the death of its manager, while 

 a public institution, in such an event, only changes its manager. 

 But it often happens that a change of manager produces strange 

 revolutions in management, rendering a valuable institution or 

 establishment comparatively worthless. 



So much would your committee offer in relation to the several 

 schemes proposed to meet the agricultural wants of the State, 

 preparatory to presenting the one they elaborate in the annexed 

 bill, and in the residue of this report, propose to present som<3 

 of the most prominent of their reasons for its adoption. 



"Whoever will carefully inspect the annexed bill, will *=t once 

 perceive, that it lays the foundation broad and deep and i)ro- 

 vides equally for the present and the future. Te the appro- 

 priations it recommends, a principle is adopted wuich we think 

 ought to be the basis of all appropriations for educational 

 purposes, viz: that all institutions which receive the bounty of 

 the State, should be held to render the State directly a reason- 

 able amount of service therefor, and be subject to some super- 

 vision by the State, so that the people may know something 

 about their doings, and what sort of use is made of their 

 money. 



While your committee are thoroughly persuaded, that one 

 institution of the kind in this State is amply sufficient to meet 

 all the agricultural wants of tha people, both now and in all 

 coming time, so far as scientific investigation is concerned, and 

 the education of teachers and others, they feel that, having two 

 colleges, both of which are doing the cause of literature and 

 science good service in our midst, it would be doing great 

 injustice and wrong to one or the other of these institutions, 

 and inflicting a great injury on the interests of agricultural 

 science in the State, to single out one of them as the State's 

 agent and the object of the State's bounty, to the neglect of 

 the other. Hence we have recommended both of our colleges 

 to the same favor, being firmly persuaded, that in no way, under 

 existing circumstances, could the great interests of agricultural 

 science be so effectually or economically advanced. This might 

 be 'xnade to appear in the strongest light, did not time and 



