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fed dry hay, and even a little corn-meal thrown in, have come 

 to me and said that their neighbors who fed roots had a little 

 the smoothest looking cattle. That is the testimony of a good 

 many young, active farmers who are paying for their own farms 

 and raising turnips too. 

 Adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M. 



Afternoon Session. 



The Board met at 2 o'clock. Dr. Durfee in the Chair. 



The President stated that President Clark, of the Agricul- 

 tural College, who had been announced as the lecturer this 

 afternoon, was unavoidably detained at home, and his place 

 would be supplied by Dr. Loring. 



THE FARMER AND THE COLLEGE. 



BY DR. GEO. B. LORING, 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, — I am under the necessity of 

 occupying more time than seems to be my share at this session, 

 on account, in the first place, of the amount of duty that has 

 been assigned me by the committee of arrangements for the 

 meeting, and, in the second place, on account of the request 

 which I have received from the President of the Agricultural 

 College that I would take his place in speaking upon the sub- 

 ject of The Farmer and the College. I suppose by " the farm- 

 er," is meant the Massachusetts farmer ; and by " the college," 

 is meant the Massachusetts Agricultural College. At any rate, 

 I propose to confine myself to those two points, and to consider 

 with you the relations which the farmer of Massachusetts should 

 hold to the College, and the benefits which I conceive may arise 

 from the union of these two forces, the practical and educa- 

 tional, here in Massachusetts, in the business of cultivating our 

 soil. 



This Agricultural College, located at Amherst, has been, as 

 you all know, from its very outset, a topic of lively and some- 

 what sharp discussion in every part of this Commonwealth. 

 Notwithstanding the fact that Massachusetts has devoted so 

 much of her time and her money to the business of educating 

 her people in every conceivable branch of learning, for their 

 benefit and for the advancement of her own interests, the mo- 

 ment that the subject of the establishment of an agricultural 



