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generally speaking, no fact. And why? Because the science 

 of agriculture has not yet grown up in this country." 



Richard Bagg, Jr., of Springfield, closed some breezy re- 

 marks by exclaiming: "Let us remember that if the State 

 provide the means and appliances for a scientific course of 

 agricultural study, the young man must 'wake up from 

 his drowsy nap,' and qualify himself 'to go up higher." ' 



The fourth and fifth resolutions were adopted, but we 

 fail to learn the fate of the eighth, having reference to re- 

 serving the entire proceeds of the sale of public lands for 

 purposes of education and charity. 



At the first meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Agri- 

 culture, September 3, 1851, Marshall P. Wilder, William 

 C. Fowler, John W. Proctor, J. H. W. Page, and S. Reed 

 were chosen a committee to report on the subject of agri- 

 cultural education and the best measures to be adopted for 

 the encouragement of such education. The report of this 

 committee was presented at the second meeting of the 

 Board on January 14, 1852. It was discussed at this 

 meeting, and also at the third meeting of the Board, on 

 February 3, 1852, when it was adopted. This report, 

 signed by Marshall P. Wilder as chairman, resolves: "That 

 Massachusetts, by an enlightened policy and wise legisla- 

 tion, has rendered her system of education worthy of her 

 exalted reputation, and that this Board most earnestly 

 desire her to complete that system by providing kindred 

 institutions for the scientific education of the farmer, upon 

 whom is levied so large a share of the taxes for the support 

 of governmental and philanthropic objects; that it is the 

 duty, as well as the interest of the State, to aid in furnish- 

 ing the means for such an education; and that a thorough 



