Ko. 4.] AGEICULTURAL COLLEGE. 3G^ 



Heport to the Legislature of the State Board 

 OF Agkicultuiie, acting as Overseers 

 OF the Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College. 



[P. S., chap. 20, sect. 5, adopted by the Board Feb. 1, 1893.] 



The power and usefulness of the Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College and experiment stations are more and more im- 

 pressed upon the members of the visiting committee of the 

 Board of Overseers. The work of the past is secure, of the 

 present is efficient ; towards the future we look w^ith assur- 

 ances of increased usefulness and })rosperity. Agricultural 

 colleges and experiment stations in the United States are 

 exerting, it is claimed, the most powerful concerted educa- 

 tional force in the world. Ha})pily, farmers themselves are 

 recognizing their worth ; here, in increasing numbers, they 

 are sending their sons for instruction ; more and more are 

 they realizing that from these centres of investigation con- 

 clusions are beinc; arrived at that are essential to the hiohest 

 success of the husbandman. To hold the Massachusetts 

 Ao;ricultural College in the fore front of similar institu- 

 tions demands increased generosity from the State, un- 

 tiring effort and devotion on the part of all interested in 

 her welfare. The college is proud of her mother ; she looks 

 forward to a glorious future with assured confidence, because 

 she is a child of the State of jNIassachusetts ; she turns to 

 this mother for assistance and support, knowing that in 

 all her grand history Massachusetts has never turned a 



