Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-05-30

your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS, post office, County an
state.
Massachusetts Agricultural College.
The people of Massachusetts have al
Agricultural College, and yet they are no
happy The fourteenth annual report TO-
the year 1876, shows deficiency of $4,000
after expanding what they have received
from various sources, which was, from
state endorsement fund $l5, 1856, appro
priation by Legislature $4,000. and term
bills for tuition and room rent (Which
costs 800 per annum, each pupiD $500,
total, $25, 678.6G And this, too, is the re-
suit when a rigid economy is practiced,
for one professorship was vacated, and the
President, on $4,000 1--WE think) salary, is
in Europe, thus cutting down expenses,
you see, to the lowest notch.
The american Caltirator, in an article
on the subject, says that an intelligent far
mer, who is thoroughly acquainted with
the management of the college, lately re-
marked that he thought the trustees should
so manage that institution rs to keep its
expenses inside of the annual receipts
which come from the fund, tuition and
room rent.
We think it is generally conceded to be
sound financial economy that expenses
should be kept below receipts to insure
entire success.
The CultiUdtoy thus further reviews the
situation:
The charges for tuition and room rent
with board are so high that many farmers
refuse TO send their sons thither to be cd
ucated, rs they feel unable to do so.
The reduction of the price per hour paid
students for their labor on the farm, from
fifteen cents to ten cents, and at that they
are to be employed MS little as possible, is |
diScouraging to those who desire to help
themselves in this way, and meanwhile TO |
learn the art of farming. 1t is desirable
to diminish the annual expenses of student
life ut the college. if possible. and 10 fur
nish an opportunity for all who wish to do
20 to labor at remunCrative wages, such rs
nre paid for that kind of labor by farmers.
1t would seem that arrangements for the
latter might be made on the college farm.
ut least for nine months of the year.
The Board of Trustees is so organized
that, with the exception of the governor
president of the college and the secretaries
OF the Boards of Agriculture and Educa
ton, who are members ex-ot1iciis, it fills
the vacancies that occur from resignation.
death or other cause. This entire Board I
OF Trustees, us reported by II member of
the Board of Agriculture, who is one of
the examining committee ofoverseers 0be
State Board of Agriculture constitutes the I
nominal board Of college overseers-nona- c
tnat we say, because they have no power /
to acD has but one farmer in its list of c
eighteen members. 1t is singular fact /
that IN institution established for the pro- b
motion, advancement and Improvement of L
agriculture in Massachusetts, should have v
but one practical farmer on its Board of Il
Trustees. What would be said of making Il
up the Board of Trustees for Amherst Col il
legc of farmers with one exception 1t n
would be hardly more inconsistent than the X
making up of the present Board of Trus- 5
tees for the Agricultural College. L
why not make the nominal board of c.
oyerseers' trustees of the Agricultural "
College? for about three-fourths of the Il
members OF the Board of Agriculture are II
farmers, one-third of which list is elected ft
annually. Besides the thrty-one members I
elected by the old Massachusetts Society p
for Promoting Agriculture and the county ii
societies, TIE State Board comprises (mem- n
bers eX-oillcils) the governor, lieutenant al
governor, secretary of the Commonwealth 81
president of the Agricultural College. Prof.
Y. A. Goesmaun, State agricultural chem =,
ISL and three members appointed by the -
governor and the council, making thirty y
nine in all. til
Put the college under the management ia
OF the State Board Of Agriculture, and we
have not a doubt that new life would at ct
once be infused into this institution for the ii
of the sons of farmers, and thus 70
greatly increase the number of students ~,
with probable decrease of the annual ex. NJ
penses for education. n n'
We have little faith in Il hacked close. Il,
corporation board of trustees who are not y,
farmers, for the management of an educa-
tlohal institution whose special function is ~
The lmparting of instruction for the best i
promotion and advancement of improved.
practical farming in Massachusetts.
Which seems to amount to what they
'all IN parliament "a declaration of lack
Of confidence " in the part of the Culttra- To-
or in the representative Agricultural Col. be
ege. A correspondent of the Houghnaan tn
loes little ciphering on Mr.. Southwick's tn
'eport which we published last week with ca
lbout the same result, as follows: pc
In an article in the PlougEn,an of the or
Z'h INST written by A. A. Soulhwick, flu
arm superintendent, he states, 1--WE are
low hauling manure for an eight and one
laIt acre field of corn, and we are putting III
m at the rate of one hundred loads of AZ fol
ublc feet to the load to an acre" If This
correct do not think our Legislature We
ught to make any further appropriation pc
or the Agricultural College. Let us look no
It the figures, one hundred loads of IA ve
ublc feet is over "a cords of manure per iik
Gre ere and nearly 300 cords for l-2 acres. mt
this manure to be worth Sc per to
ora we have over 5000 worth per acre ter
nd nearly $500 worth on the field of 8 10 "a
cres' 10 my mind this is absolute wastes abb
u raw material. Gf the manure is good the
Or anything) for before his succeeding DO
'rass crop can get the benefit of this vast sol
mount OF plant food, much of it must be to
ost by ram, sun and air. From some ex- wa
and careful observation | am of "A I
plnlon that (2O) twenty rds to the acre |
the very largest amount of manure col
t : can be prohtably applied to any land
one tlme' a s
This is new illustration of the old say aid
'g that the gods never put all good into XII Nj:
ne package" While many of our citi- t 6n}
ems are growing over our Agricultural a i
'ollege, without professor or Il student, for
hey may still be thankful it has no lepis. tire
'tlve aid and no deficiency to make up. inn
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