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ment is $381.46. The balance shown in the Treasurer's statement is 

 $382.46. When the above warrant is paid or canceled the accounls of the 

 Secretary and Treasurer will correspond. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



W. T. Carrington, 

 Alex. Maitland, 



Auditing Committee. 

 On motion of Mr. Potts, the report was adopted as submitted. 



The Committee on Agricultural College made the following report: 



REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE COMMITTEE. 



Mr. President : 



Your Committee after an examination of the Agricultural College 

 and Experiment Station, beg to submit the following report: 



1. We are gratified to note that the new dairy building, the new live 

 stock judging building, and the new horticultural building, for which 

 appropriations were made by the last General Assembly, appear to be 

 well adapted to the purposes for which they are intended, that they pre- 

 sent a neat and attractive appearance, and we desire to especially com- 

 mend the action of the authorities in constructing these buildings of na- 

 tive lime-stone instead of brick. They are permanent structures of which 

 any Agricultural College in the country may be justly proud. 



2. In our judgment the lines oi work undertaken by the Experi- 

 ment Station in crops, tillage, stock feeding, orcharding, diseases of live 

 stock, combating of injurious insects, etc., are proving of great value in 

 the development of the Agricultural resources of the State and in point- 

 ing out the way to more successful systems of farming. 



3. We note with pleasure that the work of the Agricultural College 

 has been still further improved, the standards materially raised, and feel 

 certain that this instruction is now upon the same high plane as that of 

 any other subject in University work, and is entitled to the same respect 

 and consideration from the teachers and students of the institution. 



4. We commend especially the close and friendly co-operation be- 

 tween the Board of Agriculture and the College and Experiment Station 

 in all matters of mutual interest, such as Farmers' Institute work, pro- 

 motion of Agricultural Education, suppression of contagious diseases 

 among plants and live-stock, the combating of injurious insects, etc., and 

 trust that these relations may be continued upon the same basis to the 

 benefit of the Agriculture of this commonwealth. 



