SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



SECRETAEY 



OF THE 



BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- 

 wealth of Massachusetts : — 



In presenting this Report it is proper to say, tliat the contract 

 between the Board of Agriculture and the Trustees of the 

 State Reform School at Westborough, will expire by limitation, 

 on the 1st of April, 1859. This contract, by which the farm 

 connected with that school was placed under the charge of the 

 Board of Agriculture, was made in March, 1854, at the joint 

 request of the two Boards. By it the farm was to be carried 

 on under the direction of the Board of Agriculture, to supply 

 the institution with milk, vegetables, beef, pork, and other pro- 

 duce, such as the interests of the school might require, to 

 employ the labor of the boys, purchase the oflal of the institu- 

 tion, &c. A systematic debt and credit account was to be kept 

 between the farm and the school, the Board crediting the 

 school with the labor of the boys, at ten cents a day of six 

 hours, each, and with the sum of three hundred and fifty 

 dollars a year for the offal, and charging it with the produce of 

 the farm, at the usual prices in the neighborhood, with labor 

 performed for the institution, &g. 



The terms of this contract have been faithfully carried out 

 by both parties. The Board of Agriculture has cleared for the 

 State, on an average, over a thousand dollars a year, or more 

 than five thousand dollars during the period of its occupancy 



