352 BOARD OF AGIllCULTUiiE. [Pub. Doc. 



Report to the LtGisLATURE or the State Board 

 OP Agriculture, acting as Overseers 

 OF THE Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College. 



[P. S., Chap. 20. Sect. 5, adopted by the Board Feb. 7, 1894 ] 



The members of the examining committee of the Agri- 

 cultural College have visited the college separately from 

 time to time during the year, and they were together in 

 attendance at the examination of the senior class for the 

 Grinnell prizes in June. 



The past year has been one of great prosperity to the 

 college. The Legislature appropriated money necessary to 

 carry out last year's requests and recommendations. A 

 larger number of students than ever before are availing 

 themselves of the advantages here afforded for culture of 

 both mental and bodily faculties. 



AVere your committee to write an extended report it would 

 be on the lines indicated in our last report — that the college 

 is doing a useful work in providing for wide culture upon sub- 

 jects especially connected with the former's calling ; that the 

 college farm and its equipment are becoming more and more 

 an ideal object lesson to any who will inspect them, while 

 the bulletins and reports explaining clearly the result of ex- 

 periments are messengers of useful information to any of 

 our citizens who will read and profit by them. 



The annual report of the trustees of the college, already 

 printed, gives in detail the condition of the various depart- 

 ments, while its urgent needs, especially as to increasing the 



