No. 4.j AGKICULTUKAL COLLEGE. 215 



Report to the Legislature of the State Board 

 OF Agriculture, acting as Overseers 

 of the Massachusetts Agricult- 

 ural College. 



[P. S., Chap. 20, Sect. 5, adopted by the Board, Jan. 12, 1897.] 



To the Slfttc Board of AgricAiUurc, Oi-crsccrs of the 3fnssaeh/(setts 

 Agrieultural College. 



The committee on Agricultural College and education, 

 appointed by this Board, are required, among other duties, 

 by the by-laws of the Board, "to visit the college from time 

 to time, to inspect the property, observe the methods, extent 

 and character of the instruction there given, attend the 

 commencement exercises and examinations, and make re- 

 port of their doings and observations to the Board, with any 

 suggestions and recommendations they may deem proi)er, as 

 prescribed by the Governor and Council." Li compliance 

 with our duty we beg leave to submit the following report. 



A part of our committee visited the college Saturday, 

 June 13, and awarded the Grinnell prizes, and w^ere present 

 at the Commencement exercises which followed the next 

 week. 



As is already well known, Hon. William Claflin of Boston 

 several years ago gave the sum of $1,000 for the endowment 

 of a first and second prize, to be called the Grinnell agricult- 

 ural prizes, in honor of his friend, George B. Grinnell of 

 New York. These two prizes are to be paid in cash to the 

 two members of the graduating class who may pass the best 

 written and oral examination in theoretical and practical 

 agi-iculture. The prizes this year were awarded as follows : 

 Henry Howard Roper, East Hubbardston, first prize ; and 

 Henry Ward Moore, Worcester, second prize. But the 

 class as a whole were entitled to much credit for the manner 



