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callings. These pupils would go forth as school teachers and 

 disseminate this knowledge. He would have a farm managed 

 by one of the best practical farmers he could find, to lead the 

 boys through the field. In the school room they might have 

 lectures from the most thoroughly scientific men who could be 

 found. 



Mr. King, editor of the Journal of Agriculture, illustrated the 

 application of science to agriculture, and showed the good results 

 which might be expected to follow this application. He closed 

 with an appeal for a suitable school to teach this science. 



Remarks were also made by Mr. Nash, of the Hampshire 

 Society, by Mr. Harvey Dodge, of the Worcester Society, and 

 by others, of which, from the lateness of the hour, no report 

 was made. 

 The resolutions were adopted, and the meeting adjourned. 



In pursuance of the resolution adopted by the board, the fol- 

 lowing memorial, with the resolves on agricultural education, 

 was presented to the Legislature : — 



To the Senate and House of Representatives ef the Commonwealth of Mas- 

 sachusetts in General Court assembled, the subscribers, officers of the Massa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture, beg leave to submit the following Memorial: 



At a late meeting of the board, the accompanying resolutions expressive of 

 the sense of the board on the importance of agriculture, and of the adoption of 

 measures for its improvement, were unanimously passed ; and they are now 

 respectfully submitted by the undersigned as a part of their" memorial, and in 

 accordance with the following vote : — 



" Resolved, That the resolutions now under considerall on he adopted, and that 

 the offxers of the Board of Jlgricidture he directed to present the same to the Legis- 

 lature, and to urge such action hy that hody as may he thought most expedient to 

 carry into practice the principles contained in said resolutions^ 



The general subject is one which has been often brought to the considera- 

 tion of the Legislature. For this reason, your memorialists deem it unneces- 

 sary, at this time, to engage in its elaborate discussion. They would particu- 

 larly refer to the report of the commissioners " concerning an agricultural 

 school, and other subjects relative to the advancement of literature in this 

 Commonwealth," which was made to the General Court in the month of Janu 

 ary, of the last year, and printed among the documents of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, No. 13. In this document was embodied ^the report of the Rev. 

 President Hitchcock, of Amherst College, who being in Europe in the sum- 

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