No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 341 



the ends designed ; and also to furnish gratuitous aid, if they 

 shall think it expedient, to such meritorious persons as may- 

 resort there for instruction: the institution so established shall 

 he called the " Bussey Institution." . , . 



Under a provision of the will, in May, 1861, the trustees 

 transferred the property in their possession to the President 

 and Fellows of Harvard College, who set aside a portion as 

 a fund, which they proposed to use for building purposes 

 whenever it should become their duty to organize and equip 

 the "Bussey Institution." They did not begin the organi- 

 zation of the school of agriculture and horticulture, however, 

 until the spring of 1870. 



Governor Andrew referred to this matter in his inaugural 



of 1863. 



Smith's Agricultural School. 



Oliver Smith died in Hatfield, Hampshire County, 

 Dec. 20, 1845. In his will he provided for a fund for the 

 establishment and maintenance of an agricultural school, in 

 the following manner : — 



I direct the said trustees, and it is hereby made their duty, 

 to manage and improve the said fund of thirty thousand dollars 

 as an accumulating fund by annually adding the interest grow- 

 ing out of the same to the principal, until the expiration of the 

 full term of Sixty Years from my decease. And at the expira- 

 tion of the said term I direct the said trustees to pay over to 

 the town of Northampton, in said county of Hampshire, out 

 of the principal of said fund such amount tliereof as may be 

 thought necessary and proper by said town, or its duly appointed 

 agents, for the purpose in the first place of purchasing a Farm, 

 or a tract of land for a Farm, within the limits of the said 

 town, for a pattern farm, to be so improved in practical details 

 as to become a model, as far as can be effected by time and 

 experience, to farmers generally. And in the second place, 

 for the purpose of purchasing another farm, or tract of land 

 for a farm, as near to said Pattern Farm as may be witliin said 

 town, to be designated for an Experimental Farm, to aid and 

 assist the labors and improvements of the Pattern Farm in tlio 

 art and science of Husbandry and Agriculture. . . . Secondly, 

 There shall also be established on the premises a School of In- 

 dustry for the benefit of the poor. The boys to be selected as 

 beneficiaries and pupils shall be of fair character, and sludl be 



