340 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The Farm School is nearing a century of its existence, 

 and in its ninety-third year is doing the work the founders 

 intended. , . . We were the first by seventy years to make 

 agriculture the basis of elementary education. We were the 

 first by several years to formulate and to put in practice a 

 thorough course in agriculture for elementary grades, and to 

 correlate the other subjects of the curriculum with it, as far as 

 practicable. . . . 



This report further states that the Farm School is a private 

 charity, dependent for its maintenance upon legacies, dona- 

 tions and annual subscriptions. Also, that it has been the 

 pioneer in several important educational movements. 



BussEY Institution. 



The Bussey Institution is a school of agriculture and 

 horticulture, established as a department of Harvard Uni- 

 versity under the trusts created by the will of Benjamin 

 Bussey of Roxbury, Mass., bearing date July 30, 1835.^ 



Mr. Bussey's will was proved and allowed in March, 

 1842. It conveyed his estate, real and personal, to seven 

 trustees, who, after all the legacies and annuities had been 

 paid or secured and certain life estates had expired, were to 

 convey all the testator's property to the President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College, upon the conditions and for 

 the purposes set forth in the will. Among these conditions 

 and purposes we find the following : — 



that they will retain the estate on which I now live in said Rox- 

 bury, called " Woodland Hill; " consisting of over two hundred 

 acres of land, as a place in my judgment well adapted, from 

 the great variety and excellence of its soil, its hills, valleys, 

 and water, its great diversity of surface and exposure, and 

 lastly, its high state of cultivation and improvement, for all 

 the objects contemplated. That they will establish there a 

 course of instruction in practical agriculture, in useful and 

 ornamental gardening, in botany, and in such other branches 

 of natural science as may tend to promote a knowledge of 

 practical agriculture and the various arts subservient thereto 

 and connected therewith, and cause such courses of lectures 

 to be delivered there at such seasons of the year and xinder 

 such regulations as they may think best adapted to promote 



1 Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, Vol. I., 1874-1876. 



