Of the 4,000,000 farms of 536,081,835 acres in the United States, 38,406 farms of 3,359,097 acres valued at $146,197,415 yielding an annual income of $24,160,881 lie within the borders of the state. Her 150,435 cows produce 29,662,953 gallons of milk, which is the foundation of her annual product of 9,655,587 pounds of butter, and 829,528 pounds of cheese. She would be unjust to her traditional sense of justice were she to send her beans out into the world single handed, with true paternal solicitude she provides them with the charmed society of 80,123 swine, thus hand in hand Massachusetts' pork and beans stride up and down the earth, supremely content in the joyous ecstasy of their Puritan conceit. While Massachusetts has well known agricultural tendencies, and her Agricultural college is one of the most important factors in her system of practical instruction, it cannot be claimed that she is a controlling element in the agricultural interests of the country. Of all her influences for good, perhaps her educational interests would command the greater prominence. She has ever regarded the instruction of her youth as one of her most sacred trusts, and in all the details of her public school system she ranks second to no state in the Union. In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national reputation. Her colleges and universities so richly endowed secure the highest attainable advantages. These privileges supplemented by the free public libraries of the state, place possibilities within the reach of every young man or young woman, the value of which cannot be approximated by human estimate. Six of the leading states are thus classified:-- Public School Sittings School Schools. State. Buildings. Provided. Property. 6,604 Mass. 3,343 319,749 $21,660,392 15,203 Ill. 11,880 694,106 15,876,572 11,623 Ind. 9,679 437,050 11,907,541 18,615 N.Y. 11,927 763,817 31,235,401 16,473 Ohio 12,224 676,664 21,643,515 18,618 Penn. 12,857 961,074 25,919,397 The following institutions for higher education have about $5,000,000 invested in grounds and buildings, about $9,000,000 in endowments, yielding an annual income of about $1,000,000, having about 4,000 students and about 400,000 volumes in libraries, Universities and Colleges. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. Amherst College, organized 1821 Boston College, organized 1864 Boston University, organized 1872 College of the Holy Cross, organized 1843 Tufts College, organized 1852 Harvard College, organized 1636 Williams College, organized 1793 COLLEGES FOR WOMEN.