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gard, and we are confident, if continued in the hands of the 

 present manager, unprofitable stock for the farm will not long be 

 tolerated. 



The farm already begins to show the beneficial results of un- 

 derd raining, a large tract of mowing land having been by this 

 means reclaimed, so that from comparative worthlessness it has 

 become a source of great income. 



The old and worthless apple-trees on the farm have been re- 

 moved, and an orchard of the different kinds of fruit, sufficient 

 at least to supply the demand upon the farm, has already been 

 planted. 



The raising of the grape in Massachusetts is no longer an ex- 

 periment but has proved to be a very profitable investment, and 

 the universal acknowledgment of this fact warrants the Trustees 

 of the College in making large provision for its culture, a well- 

 located vineyard of two acres having been planted. There can 

 be no reasonable doubt of its success. 



The more immediate wants of the College at the present time, 

 seem to be more enlarged accommodations for pupils, and also 

 some means to reclaim the pasture land which, to a great ex- 

 tent, is at present in an unprofitable condition. 



We can hardly expect that an institution still in infancy 

 would have arrived in this short time to that degree of perfec- 

 tion, that it presents no material for the critic. 



Your former Committee suggested that the College should 

 possess a " working farm," in which we fully concur ; and it 

 cannot be expected that all the rough places will at once be 

 smoothed, or the unfertile spots reclaimed. It must neces- 

 sarily be the work of many years. What we have a right to 

 expect, and all that we can reasonably ask, is that the best use 

 should be made of the liberal provisions in its behalf that can 

 possibly be made, so that the success achieved by the triumph- 

 ant victory of the students of the College in their late trial of 

 " muscle," shall be simply emblematical of that greater triumph 

 which in the future awaits the representatives of the Agricult- 

 ural College, when they shall enter the race for a trial of 

 " brain and muscle." 



We congratulate the State Board of Agriculture upon the 

 eminent success which has thus far crowned the efforts in behalf 

 of the Agricultural College. Let its friends continue to be 



