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are to be experimental farming and gardening, and gardening 

 for the purposes of science ; there is to be ornamental gardening 

 here, and there is to be work for the cultivation of taste. These 

 things do not come back in money, and hence we cannot pay out 

 money to the students for tliis kind of labor. So you will agree 

 with me, I am sure, that we want about $100,000 as a labor 

 fund. If you know anybody who is anxious to give it, just 

 refer him to me. 



Without occupying any further time, I will ask Mr. Alexander 

 Hyde, of Lee, Chairman of the Committee, to report upon 



A BARN FOR THE COLLEGE. 



The Committee on Plan of Barn for the Agricultural College 

 at Amherst respectfully submit the following Report : — 



Your Committee have labored under some embarrassment, in 

 consequence of the remoteness of residence from each other, 

 which has prevented that concert of action which is so desirable. 

 Our zeal has also been somewhat abated by the fact that the 

 trustees of the college last spring decided to renovate the barns 

 already standing upon the college grounds, and we feared we 

 might be " carrying coals to Newcastle " in offering them a 

 plan of a barn. We are also well aware that the powers of the 

 Board of Agriculture in the matters of the college are only 

 supervisory, and we feared the trustees might accuse us of 

 offering advice before we were asked. Notwithstanding these 

 embarrassments, we have kept an eye out for all the famous 

 barns of the State, and some out of the State, and have also 

 studied many plans of barns which we have been unable to 

 visit, and, with much distrust of our own judgment, submit the 

 accompanying plan. 



We find great diversity of tastes in barn architecture. There 

 is no Corinthian, Doric, nor Gothic style, the general prin- 

 ciples of which we can follow, and we are surprised to find so 

 few really convenient and tasteful barns in the country. Our 

 fathers, coming from a country where the winters are compara- 

 tively mild, and where a large share of the hay and grain is 

 stacked and the barn consequently of secondary consideration, 

 did not pay much attention to their out-buildings. The model 

 of a puritan barn, which has been too closely followed, was 

 a rude structure, built on a foundation laid on the surface of 



