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The cool cellars for the keeping of fruit cannot fail to 

 interest the grower and seller of fruits. No one can visit 

 the stables, where the experiments are going on with cattle 

 and horses, and see the great care and neatness shown 

 there, the fine pens for pigs, the exactness with which they 

 are fed, without being convinced that the money expended 

 was not wasted. "We visited the fields, where all kinds of 

 forage crops were being raised, also the grain and root 

 crops ; and it was a great pleasure to us to see the enthusiasm 

 exhibited by professors, teachers and students. They do 

 not act as if they were at their duties, but more at their 

 recreations. Ask a question, and you will get an answer so 

 full and complete that you feel the want of time to ask all 

 the questions that crowd your mind ; for, from the professor 

 to the youngest student, the moment a question is asked, 

 the answer comes with the enthusiasm that at once sets you 

 at ease. 



Your committee Vv^ere more and more impressed with the 

 idea that our farmers did not realize what the State was 

 doing for them at the Agricultural College and Experiment 

 Station in Amherst. There are hundreds of farmers living 

 within twenty miles of Amherst, who have never visited the 

 institution. If they were not welcome, there might be an 

 excuse for this ; but they are not only welcome, but are 

 urged to come. They are making experiments there which 

 but few farmers could afibrd, and they are for all of the 

 farmers of the State. From all we could learn, the experi- 

 ments were constantly growing in value and interest. The 

 close and accurate experiments in stock-feeding were not the 

 least interesting to your committee. They were able to tell 

 you how much a pound of beef or pork cost to mak-e from 

 certain kinds of food. They can also tell you how that 

 pound can be made the cheapest, also the kind of frame it is 

 best to make the meat on ; and so in regard to the cost of 

 making milk and butter. 



While the experiment station and farm are doing so much, 

 they are, as it were, in their infancy ; and we are pleased to 

 know that the farmers are awakino- to the fact that this is in 

 no small decree their institution. 



