226 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



At the same meeting of the Board a committee was appoint- 

 ed, to consider and report at the next meeting of the Board, 

 some plan of operations at the Farm for the coming year. This 

 committee was chosen by ballot, as follows : Messrs. Tower, of 

 Lanesborough, Fisher, of Fitchbnrg, Grennell, of Greenfield, 

 Felton, of Brookfield, and Newell, of West Newbnry. This 

 committee accordingly visited the Farm, and at the annnal 

 meeting of the Board, held at the State House on the 26th of 

 January, 1858, presented a detailed report for the use of the 

 Board. A committee was thereupon chosen, by ballot, to 

 superintend the management of the Farm, as follows : Messrs. 

 Brooks, Newell, Fisher, Tower, Field, Felton, Gardner and 

 Bartlett. 

 ■ It was voted, Tliat the superintending committee shall have 

 the whole charge of the Farm in all its details. At the first 

 meeting of said committee, they shall organize by the choice 

 of a clerk, mature their plans for the general management of 

 the Farm during the season, and no new enterprise sliall be 

 commenced without the consent of a majority of the committee. 

 The committee shall meet at the Farm not less tlian once a 

 month, and the record of all their meetings shall be left in the 

 hands of their chairman, who shall communicate all directions 

 to the farmer, who shall look to no one else for directions as 

 to crops, labor, stock and improvements. 



The chairman shall be at the Farm as often as circumstances 

 shall require, and shall spend some days there during the plant- 

 ing of the crops. 



It was also voted. That the Board ask of the legislature an 

 appropriation of four thousand dollars, for the purchase of 

 additional stock at the Farm, for sundry necessary improve- 

 ments, and for the labor of the boys during tlic year. 



For the latter purpose two thousand dollars would, it was 

 thought, be needed. It is necessary that tlie boys should be 

 furnished with work, and it was the intention of the founder of 

 the institution that they should be employed on the Farm. It 

 cannot be supposed that so large a number can be worked to 

 any profit, especially when it is considered that the crops raised 

 must be such as the institution needs, and not merely such as 

 would be raised to most advantage with boys' labor. The expe- 

 rience of four years has shown, that in point of fact the labor 



