16 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. 



1853', at Harrisburg. At this meeting, Messrs. Frederick 

 Watts, James H. Ewing and H. N. McAllister, were ap- 

 pointed members of a Board of Agriculture, in pursuance 

 of a provision of the United States Agricultural Society, 

 establishing such a Board; also, the following gentlemen 

 presented a report upon the subject of an Agricultural 

 School, A. S. Koberts, T. C. Carothers, I. Koenigmacher, 

 A. 0. Hiester, D. Mellinger. 



AN AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



The members of this Committee state that they believe 

 the present to be an auspicious time for founding an Agri- 

 cultural School; that the advantages to be derived from 

 it, are too obvious to require demonstration, and that to 

 inaugurate the movement, they recommend the calling 

 of a general convention of Delegates from all parts of 

 the State, to meet at Harrisburg, to consider this subject ; 

 whereupon it was resolved 



" That an Agricultural Convention be held at Harris- 

 burg, on Tuesday, the Sth of March next, to adopt measures 

 for the establishment of an Agricultural Institution, to be 

 styled, ' Ihe Farmers High School of Pennsylvania,' with 

 a model farm attached thereto, and that the convention con- 

 sists of as many delegates from each district, as there are 

 Senators and Legislators from the same: said delegates to be 

 chosen by the Agricultural Societies where such are located, 

 and in other districts by the friends of Agricultural Edu- 

 cation." 



THE FARMERS HIGH SCHOOL OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



This convention met and, in the language of the Hon. 

 Frederick Watts, in a letter afterwards addressed to Go- 

 vernor Bigler, " with an unparalleled unanimity recom- 

 mended the establishment of a school for the education 

 of Farmers, and gave the subject in charge to a committee 

 to have it enacted into a law, and carried into effect." 



This letter, which Judge Watts, as President of the 

 State Agricultural Society, addressed to Governor Bigler 

 on the occasion of his presenting the first copy of the 

 annual report of that Society, is devoted mainly to the 

 consideration of the proposed Agricultural School. 



