220 BOAliD OF AGlilCULTUEE. [Pub. Doc. 



Report to the Legislature of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, acting as Over- 

 seers of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College. 



[Revised Laws, chapter 89, section 10, adopted by tlie Board, Jan. 9, 1906.] 



To the State Board of Agi'icultiire, Overseers of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College. 



At the beginning of the present college year the number 

 of students, 210, the greatest number ever enrolled for the 

 regular course, proves that there is an increased interest of 

 our people in our excellent Agricultural College. 



There has also been a steady gain of those who take the 

 short or winter course, many of those being not boys but 

 me7i, who feel that the present age demands that they fit 

 themselves especially in the line of work they would pursue. 



At commencement in June the Grinnell prizes were 

 awarded to Bertram Tupper of Barre and to Harold Foss 

 Thompson of Jamaica Plain. 



The colleo-e has suffered a ffreat loss in the death of its 

 loved and honored president. Dr. H, H. Goodell. The tak- 

 ing of one who as instructor and president had spent nearly 

 all of his life in work for the institution makes a gap not 

 easily filled. We commend the action of the trustees in 

 their careful deliberation before electing his successor. 



At our October visit we found the farm had yielded re- 

 turns fully up to the average. We suggest it might be well 

 to plant some })ortion to flint corn, and not depend upon a 

 dent variety for the entire crop. 



The dairy herd was the best we have ever seen at the 

 farm, and one that any similar institution might well be 

 proud of. We greatly regret that the loss of the bar-n by 



