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culture, and superintendent, nor by the lectures in the adja- 

 cent literary institution ; . . . 



5. Power to appoint one tutor for every thirty-five scholars 

 in the school, with a salary of $500, . . . 



6. Power to make an offer to the public, in behalf of the 

 State, of the prospective endowment of a professorship of ele- 

 mentary and agricultural chemistry; of natural history and 

 geology ; of anatomy, physiology, and veterinary medicine and 

 surgery, . . . 



7. Power to expend 13,000, the first year, in establishing 

 agricultural departments in as many of the existing academies 

 of the State as shall be judged expedient; . . . 



8. Power to make such other arrangements for the manage- 

 ment of the new school, as they may judge necessary; . . . 



9. Power to invite donations from the citizens of the State, 

 of models and drawings of agricultural instruments, and draw- 

 ings of animals useful in agriculture; models of varieties of 

 fruit; specimens of insects injurious to vegetation; of the 

 skeletons of animals; of dried seeds, grasses, and grains; of 

 rocks, minerals, and soils ; of agricultural and scientific books, 

 and whatever substances, organic or inorganic, may be useful 

 in such a school. 



10. Power to invite the friends of agriculture to establish 

 scholarships and prizes in the central school and in the county 

 schools. 



11. Power to secure the preparation and introduction into 

 the primary schools of a proper manual of agriculture, to be 

 taught there to those children whose parents wish them to 

 attend to that subject. 



12. Were such an arrangement to go into operation, in which 

 the government defrayed half the expense, and individuals the 

 other half, then should the central and the county schools be 

 under the control of trustees, one half of whom should consist 

 of the board of agriculture, and the other half of gentlemen 

 chosen by the donors to the several institutions ; . . . 



In conclusion, I would only say, that my conviction is, that 

 if Massachusetts desire it, she might, on some such plan as 

 has been suggested, within a very few months, put into opera- 

 tion a system of Agricultural Schools that would ultimately 

 attain a very high character. . . . 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



Edwaed Hitchcock. 



Amhekst, Dec. 16th, 1850. 



