260 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Report to the Legislature of the State 

 Board of AaRicuLTURE, acting as Over- 

 seers OF the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. 



[Revised Laws, chapter 89, section 10, adopted by the Board, Jan. 13, 1903.] 



To the State Board of Agriculture, Overseers of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Your committee first visited the college on June 14, when 

 the ' ' Grinnell prizes " were awarded as follows : the first to 

 Joshua H. Belden of Kewington, Conn., and the second to 

 Edward B. Saunders of Southwick, Mass. 



Your committee regard the farm connected with the Agri- 

 cultural College as an important part of the essentials of the 

 institution, and in all departments connected therewith the 

 aim should be to so conduct it that an object lesson should 

 be ever before the public, as well as the students who are 

 giving their time at least to the acquiring of a systematic 

 agricultural education. A young man must be an admirer 

 of what he sees as well as what he does, in order to derive 

 the best results, and to this end the class in agriculture 

 should have continually before it the best specimens pro- 

 duced. We cannot grow good crops from inferior seed, 

 neither can good stock be produced from "scrub sires and 

 dams." "Like begets like." We are glad to notice that 

 all the farm crops except corn have been grown to a profit, 

 the balance being on the right side, the statement showing a 

 net profit of $1,634.04, and a loss of $58.07 on 40 acres of 

 corn. 



Your committee are pleased with the systematic care taken 

 with eveiy thing connected with the farm, but we believe 

 there should be a better class of stock. There are a few 



