1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



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altogether on pleasant days when farm work 

 presses. Whatever may be the precise value 

 of the knowledge of military afiairs acquired 

 here, the time given to drilling v/ill be well 

 spent if it gives to tlie students an erect fig- 

 ure, well developed chests, teaches them bow 

 to walk, to be easy in all their movements, to 

 be carcfid of their dress and to think more of 

 personal appearance ; for in all these particu- 

 lars hard working farmers are inclined to be 

 sadly at fault. 



A third immediate want is money to pay 

 the students for their work. Every college 

 has some way for assisting needy students. 

 Amherst has a fund of $100,000, called a 

 "Charity Fund." Many who will come to 

 the agricultural college will be unable to pay 

 for their education. Such desire to work and 

 receive help, if it may be so called, in pay- 

 ment of services rendered, instead of receiv- 

 ing it as a charity. In the present condition 

 of the farm there is no income to pay for the 

 regular work and permanent improvements at 

 the rate they should be carried forward. It 

 is extremely desirable that a fund be created 

 at once to meet this deficiency, and our be- 

 nevolent citizens, who really have at heart the 

 rapid progress of their native State in all that 

 is useful, will find an excellent opportunity to 

 lend a helping hand. Money thus given 

 effects a two-fold object — it assists the college 

 and the students themselves. Young men 

 who prefer to work rather than beg or to be 

 indifferent and passive^recipients of charity, 

 may be ranked with those who make a. good 

 use of an education. 



Other wants are apparent to every visitor. 

 Work to be done meets the eye in whatever 

 direction we turn. It is time the necessary 

 buildings for a model farm were erected, or 

 at least begun. It is time some progress was 

 made in setting out trees and shrubs, both 

 fruit and ornamental ; in collecting tools and 

 implements and in stocking the farm with de- 

 sirable animals. The trustees have been in 

 the possession of the farm four years, and 

 people begin to look for some results beside 

 removing old fences and buildings, tearing up 

 bushes, decaying trees, &c. It i.'i time there 

 were residences upon the farm for the 

 President and all the Instructors, aod thus 

 throw around the students greater restrain^t. 

 more of home influence, and impart a social 

 aspect to their life, which now is purely the 

 dormitory or barrack style of living. 



These are some of the wants, and it is true 

 ^ it will require a large outlay to meet them, 

 and yet not a large sum compared to the in- 

 terests they are designed to advance. Once 

 supplied they have a permanent value ; they 

 become part of the real estate. The success 

 of the college depends upon them. If it has 

 not the means to rise above a first-class high 

 school, with an ordinary faim attached, it can 

 never command the pairoriage of our farmers ; 

 for they will not send their sous away from 



home to school when their own town or county 

 offers the same advantages. But give the 

 College the means to take the stand it ought, 

 and its superior advantages will draw thither 

 young men from all parts of the State. It is 

 looking to the lovers of the sciences and the 

 liberal patrons of agriculture for aid. It has 

 assumed the name of the Commonwealth and 

 may justly be regarded a State enterprise, and 

 shall it receive less from a generous public 

 than the other colleges ? n. s. t. 



Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 15, 1869. 



Remarks. — It might have gratified the cu- 

 riosity of some of his readers had our cor- 

 respondent given an estimate of the cost of 

 suppljing all the "many immediate and urgent 

 wants" of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, to which he has alluded. 



OFFICEKS OP MB. AG'L SOCIETIES, 



ANDROSCOGGIN. — Hon. Rufus Prince, Tur- 

 ner, President ; E. Ham, Lewiston, Trustram 

 Hill, Greene, Vice Presidents ; W. R. Wright, 

 Lewiston, Secretary; D. Farrar, Lewiston, 

 Treasurer; James Clark, Lewiston, Agent; 

 E. P. Tobie, Lewiston, Librarian ; J. B. Ham, 

 Lewiston, J. R. Pulsifer, Poland, J. K. Piper, 

 Lewiston, Augustus Sprague. Greene, J. B. 

 Jordan, Webster, B. L. Townsend, Auburn, 

 D. B. Strout, Auburn, Trustees. 



West Penobscot. — President — E. F. Crane, 

 Kenduskeag ; Vice Presidents — S. D. Jennings, 

 Garland, F. W. Hill, Exeter, Chas. Shaw, 

 Dexter ; Secretary and Treasurer — T. P. 

 Batchelder, Kenduskeag ; Agent and L.brAri- 

 an — David Barker, Exeter ; Trustees — M. M. 

 Hodsdon, Kenduskeag; Jacob Eastman, E.xe- 

 ter ; Sylvester Eddy, Corinth. 



East Kennebec. — President — Isaac Ham- 

 ilton, China ; Vice Presidents — H. C. Ham- 

 ilton, D. W. Tyler, China; Secretary— H. B. 

 Williams, China; Corresponding Secretary — 

 J. F. Chadvvick, China ; Treasurer — Wm. Per- 

 c'val, China; Trustees — John Reed, Zenas 

 Percival, David Malchom, China ; Horace Col- 

 burn, Daniel Vining, Windsor ; Warren Perci- 

 val, Vassalboro' ; V. R. Turner, W. S. Gree- 

 ley, Palermo ; C. B. Wellington, Albion ; Levi 

 Turner, Somerville ; J. G. Cummings, Liberty. 

 — Maine Farmer. 



Bees, to be prosperous in the spring, 

 should be well wintered. Every person own- 

 ing bees should be well acquainted with tbe 

 condition of every stand every month in the 

 year. If you have not done so before now, 

 turn up every stand and ascertain its condi- 

 tion. A little attention may save much, and 

 make your bees prosperous in the spring. — 

 Bee-Keeper'' s Jowrnul. 



