PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS, SUMMARY OF THE REPORT 

 AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 



Following is the text of the resolves passed by the Legisla- 

 ture : 



RESOLVES OF 1910, CHAPTER 108. 



Eesolved, That the state board of education shall investigate the prac- 

 ticability and desirability of establishing a farm school in the city of 

 Worcester in which instruction may be given, free, in the raising of 

 fruits, vegetables, flowers, grains, plants and trees, and in the care 

 of domestic animals, and in which similar instruction suitable to their 

 years may be given to children. The board shall report in print to the 

 general court, with such recommendations as it may deem proper, not 

 later than January fifth, nineteen hundred and eleven. [Approved 

 May 28, 1910. 



RESOLVES OF 1910, CHAPTER 133. 



Resolved, That the board of education is hereby authorized and di- 

 rected to investigate the advisability of establishing a system of agri- 

 cultural schools throughout the commonwealth, and to report the result 

 of its investigation with its recommendations to the next general court 

 not later than the second Wednesday in January, nineteen hundred and 

 eleven. [Approved June 10, 1910. 



In obedience to these resolves, the Board of Education di- 

 rected the Commissioner of Education to make the necessary 

 investigations and to engage expert assistance. Mr. Eufus W. 

 Stimson, director of Smith's Agricultural School and North- 

 ampton School of Industries, was appointed to assist in making 

 the investigations and preparing the report. 



Special acknowledgment is here made of the assistance of 

 the following: President Kenyon L. Butterfield and members 

 of the faculty of Massachusetts Agricultural College; Secre- 

 tary J. Lewis Ellsworth of the State Board of Agriculture; 

 Mr. Dick J. Crosby, specialist, and Mr. E. W. Howe, assist- 

 ant specialist, in agricultural education, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations ; Mr. 



