Part IL] AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION. 273 



PART IL — LEGISLATION OF GENERAL AGRICULTURAL 



INTEREST. 



MOUNT TOBY FOREST. 



General Acts, Chapter 234. 

 An Act to establish the mount toby state demonstration forest 



AND to provide FOR INSTRUCTION THEREIN BY THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College are 

 hereby authorized to take or acquire by purchase, gift or otherwise, land 

 not exceeding one thousand acres in extent, situated on and about Mount 

 Toby, so-called, in the to"mis of Sunderland and Leverett, and now ovraed 

 by John L. Graves and others. 



Section 2. The land acquired under the pro-visions of this act shall 

 be known as the Mount Toby State Demonstration Forest, and title to the 

 land shall be in the commonwealth. 



Section 3. The said trustees shall have the same power to acquire 

 land for the Mount Toby State Demonstration Forest which is given to 

 the metropoUtan park commission in respect to other land by chapter 

 four hundred and seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 three, and acts in amendment thereof, and shall be vested with full power 

 and authority to care for, protect and maintain the same in behalf of the 

 commonwealth. 



Section 4. The trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College are 

 hereby further authorized and directed to use the lands acquired under 

 the provisions of this act, or so much thereof as they shall determine, for 

 the instruction of students in forestry and as a laboratory for the purposes 

 of research and illustration in economic questions and practical work re- 

 lating to the conservation and use of forest tracts and farm wood lots. 



Section 5. To carry out the purposes of this act, a sum not exceeding 

 thirty thousand dollars shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the 

 commonwealth. 



Section 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 19, 1916. 



AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE REPORT. 



General Acts, Chapter 233. 



An Act relative to the annual report of the trustees of the 

 massachusetts agricultural college. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section one of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the 

 acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, as amended by section one of 

 chapter four hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of the year nineteen 



