14 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



WINTER MEETINGS. , 



The public winter meetings of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture of Connecticut were held in Danielsonville, on tlie 9tli, 

 10th, 11th, and 12tli of January, in the spacious and comfort- 

 able hall of the new school-house at that place, and the attend- 

 ance at most of the meetings was gratifying and encouraging. 



The sessions commenced on Tuesday, January 9th, at 2|- 

 o'clock, Vice-President, Hon. E. H. Hyde, in the chair. 



Tlie president, on calling the meeting to order, said: "We 

 are very glad to be permitted to come together in this section 

 of the state. Although a little out of the centre, perhaps, iu 

 an agricultural point of view, we are certainly in the midst of 

 one of the most prosperous manufacturing sections of our 

 state." 



Mr. George Sanger, of Canterbury. — Mr. President and 

 Gentlemen of the Board: I desire, as a representative of the 

 Windiiam County Agricultural Society, and also in behalf of 

 the Woodstock Agricultural Society, to extend to the mem- 

 bers of the Board a most hearty and earnest welcome to our 

 county. We are glad to have you with us, gentlemen, and 

 we most cordially welcome among us those gentlemen of sci- 

 ence who are here to speak to us upon the various subjects 

 which' may be brought to our attention. 



It has been truly said in my hearing this morning, that the 

 farmers of Connecticut are not acquainted with each other as 

 they ought to be, and I sincerely hope that these meetings 

 during this week may do much in the direction of bringing 

 the farmers of the different sections of the state together in 

 friendly personal intercourse. It will afford us the highest 

 pleasure if we shall be able to contribute, in any measure, to 

 your comfort and happiness while you are with us, and to the 

 success of the meetings of the Board during this week. 

 Again, gentlemen, we bid you a hearty welcome. 



Mr. Gold. It was because we had confidence in the assur- 

 ances of the gentlemen of Windham County that they desired 

 to meet us that we came here. They came to us with the 

 declaration that they would be glad to sec us, that they would 



