34 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Your committee •R'ish now to express their convictions in regard to 

 an ao;ricuItural school as a means of advancing; the cause of am-icul- 

 ture. That the time will come when such a school will be establish- 

 ed in Maine, your committee entertain not a doubt ; but it will, if 

 successful, be a model school for the few, who shall be the teachers 

 of the many. Your committee are of the opinion, that measures to 

 elevate the condition of our primary schools should precede that of 

 an agricultural college. In due time, such an institution will be an 

 efficient aid to the scientific farmer. 



Could some better arrangement be made by which a portion of 

 the public money expended for primary schools should be devoted to 

 the special study of the higher branches by young men, it might 

 be one step in the right direction towards a thorough education of 

 farmers. 



Finally, your committee express the opinion, that the farmer 

 should, first of all, learn to respect himself, and he will soon secure 

 the respect of every other class of society ; and it will serve to ele- 

 vate him, to that social rank in society which he really deserves. 

 Let him educate his body, mine? and heart, so that when the body 

 begins to fail, his intellect will still be active, and when that too, 

 begins to wane, he will still have a warm and well cultivated heart 

 beating within the walls of his breast, to sustain and cheer him in 

 the decline of life, and prepare him for a peaceful rest and a blessed 

 immortality. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



N. T. True, Chairman. 



The report as above was adopted. It embraces several alterations 

 which were made by the chairman, after discussion by Messrs. Was- 

 son. Flint, True, Anderson, Martin, Porter, Goodale and others ; 

 and so much as referred to the establishment of a model farm upon 

 the lands connected with the State Reform School at Westbrook, was 

 stricken out. 



Mr. Anderson, chairman of committee on third Topic, reported as 

 follows : 



Your committee on Topic No. 3, have given it attention, and 

 report that farmers are not to hope for success without bestowing 

 upon their business such attention as warrants the hope of success 

 in other branches of business. But while this is the reply to the 



