352 BOAKD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Pub. Doc. 



OUTLIKES OF A PlAN FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN 



Massachusetts.^ 

 I. Let an Agricultural School or College of the superior 

 class be established somewhere in the State, possessed of all 

 the means (teachers, books, apparatus, specimens, farms, &c.) 

 necessary to give a finished education in the principles and 

 practice of agriculture. Such a school, it seems to me, should 

 embrace the following particulars, at least : — 



1. A school of instruction, by lectures and recitations, in 

 the following branches . . . : — 



2. Collections of the following description . . . : — 



3. A model and experimental farm of moderate size, and 

 instruction in practical farming. . . . 



4. Provision for Instruction in Ancient and Modern lan- 

 guages. . . . 



5. Provision on the farm for the board of those students 

 who are willing to devote their time to labor daily beyond 

 what is required of all. . . . 



6. Number of Instructors Necessary. . . . 



7. The course of study should embrace two years. . . . 



8. For admission, an examination should be required, in 

 English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and Euclid's Ele- 

 ments of Geometry, at least the first five books. . . . 



9. The tuition should be as low as possible, certainly not 

 higher than at the existing colleges of the State, and that is 

 about $40. As soon as possible the instruction should be 

 gratuitous. 



10. Several scholarships, say as many as ten to begin with, 

 equal at least to the tuition, should be founded by the 

 State. . . . 



11. Provided individuals shall ofEer ten acres of good land, 

 to be improved as a model farm, by some academy, let the State 

 give to that academy (not more than to one in each county,) 

 at least $200 for instruction, and $50 for a library; provided 

 said academy shall agree to cultivate the land, and provide for 

 a department of agriculture: the aid from the State to be with- 

 drawn, however, when the number of students in agriculture 

 shall be less than ten. 



12. Let a manual of agriculture be prepared by some com- 

 petent person, or some existing manual be adopted, and intro- 



» House, No. 13, January, 1851, p. 78. 



