326 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



world should not be echoed here. There should be knowl- 

 edge, or frank confession of ignorance. 



We would show the students the example of an agricult- 

 ure systematized to the utmost. Much use of the scales, 

 measurement ; much memoranda of passing events ; much 

 attention of the mind to little things, and the relation of these 

 to a larger whole, — all this should furnish material for annual 

 reports ; a series of which would be a sort of encloptedia of 

 husbandly, having the interest of biography. Such a carrying 

 on of the farm and expression of results would encourage the 

 more frequent introduction into agricultural concerns of those 

 methods and discipline of mind, that, applied elsewhere, as- 

 sures progress. Hence growth of knowledge, so appropriate 

 for a college to foster, and so calculated to increase the 

 respect and fondness of the student for the agricultural life. 

 We look hopefully forward, well convinced, however, the 

 true status is not to be immediately realized. To make the 

 college farm a confessor of hidden truth requires money, and 

 a larger outlay than many practical men would approve of, 

 and more than the trustees of the College have at their dis- 

 posal for the object. It must be an outlay far exceeding 

 income. Something, however, may be done without much 

 expenditure, save that of enthusiasm, a right direction, 

 patience and industry ; and we believe acknowledgment of 

 the mine of wealth that lies at hand in the college farm will 

 forward the realization of our aspirations, and justify the 

 statement of them in this place. 



For the Committee, 



Joseph N. Sturtevant. 



The report was accepted. 



Col. Stone was appointed a Committee to report upon 

 the Credentials of newly elected Members. 



The Board then adjourned. 



Second Day. 



The Board met at 10 o'clock, a. m., Hon. Marshall P. 

 Wilder in the chair. 



