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attained, only in a much more profitable ratio, in the production 

 of seeds of the other vegetables named. 



Then the farmers of Massachusetts could get seeds of the 

 usual varieties of crops grown here of tiie best quality, and 

 such seeds properly planted and cared for would produce a 

 good crop of a first-rate article, which would be entirely satis- 

 factory. 



The buyers would be willing to pay a first-rate price, and if 

 it was one of the market gardeners, to whom we have referred, 

 he would say, I don't care what the price is, if I can only get 

 what I want. He knows well that the price of seeds, no matter 

 how high, is cheap, if good. It would be a source of revenue, 

 and not a small one by any means, if managed properly, to the 

 college, and one of the means by which that institution would 

 be made self-supporting and useful. It would create an opinion 

 among the farmers that the Agricultural College is an institu- 

 tion where their sons can get a practical as well as a theoretical 

 education. That belief is to-day wanting among the great mass 

 of the farming community in this State. Let us by some plain 

 and practical results, such as we have named, create such an 

 opinion ; and when we have done that, anything reasonable that 

 the college might ask the State for, backed as they certainly 

 would be by the great mass of the farmers of this good old 

 Commonwealth, would be granted readily. 



And in conclusion your Committee desire to call the attention 

 of this Board to the great importance of having a supply of 

 good seed, free from dirt, chaff, thistles and weed seeds. 



And we would therefore recommend that field and garden 

 seeds should be one of the subjects to be referred to one of the 

 standing committees for the next year. 



John B. Moore. 

 Avery P. Slade. 

 !N. P. Brown. 



The report was laid over under the rule, when Mr. Bassett, 

 on behalf of the committee on that subject, submitted the fol- 

 lowing Report upon the 

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