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The report was accepted ; when, reports of delegates being 

 in order, Mr. Hawes rej^orted upon the Middlesex Society ; 

 Mr. Vincent upon the Worcester; Col. Wilder upon the 

 Worcester West ; Mr. Perry upon the Worcester South-East ; 

 Mr. Kellogg upon the Highland ; IVIr. Holland upon the 

 Hampden ; Mr. Shepley upon the Union ; Mr. Dwight upon 

 the Franklin ; Mr. Stone upon the Deerfield Valley ; Mr. 

 Bates upon the Berkshire ; Mr. Graves upon the Hoosac 

 Valley ; Mr. L. P. Warner upon the Marshfield, and Mr. 

 Sessions upon the Worcester North-West and the Hampden 

 East. 



Col. Stone was appointed a committee to examine and 

 report upon the credentials of new members. 



The report of the Examining Committee of the Agricultural 

 College was then presented and read by Judge Bexnett. 



REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



The undersigned. Committee to examine the Agricultural 

 College, have attended to that duty, and made two official 

 visits to that institution during the past year, one at the annual 

 public exercises in June, and another in January just past. 

 On each occasion they were deeply impressed with the value 

 and importance of a scientific agricultural school, and an 

 experimental farm, such as we there possess, and of the gen- 

 eral success with which the same has been managed. They 

 desire also to express their high appreciation of the scientific 

 experiments made there, and its importance as a permanent 

 scientitic station. 



The reports of former committees have sometimes dwelt at 

 length upon the annual operations of the institution, but as 

 these are given so fully in the recent report of the president, 

 already promulgated, it seems unnecessary to repeat the story 

 here. 



One important fact stated in that report had already attracted 

 the attention of your Committee, and seems to call for careful 

 consideration; and that is, the financial question. It appears 

 that the income of the institution, from all sources, does not 

 equal the annual expenses by several thousand dollars, and 



