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institution that I am, and therefore you might say that I have 

 no business to get up here and pra4se him. But I will tell 

 you one thing, — if he was not a first rate man, I know he 

 would not hail from there. I want to-tell you another thing: 

 we have lately had to raise his salary to keep him from accept- 

 ing a permanent position in another institution, and if he had 

 not loved us better than he did a more lucrative position he 

 would have gone. I mention this to show you that the best 

 authorities in the country understand that he is a very prom- 

 ising entomologist, a thing we have known down in New Ha- 

 ven for a number of years, and I want the State Board of 

 Agriculture, and the farmers of Connecticut to put their fin- 

 ger down upon this proposition, that neither Massachusetts, 

 nor any other state shall be able to take Mr. Smith away from 

 us. If we need any more money to keep him, I w^ant them 

 to come forward and help us pay him. 



There is one other point to which I wish to refer. "We 

 cannot spread intelligence abroad in the community with ref- 

 erence to insects unless we will take a little trouble. In the 

 first place, we must know what insects are. We must learn 

 that " bug " is not a name which describes all insects. We 

 must Icarn the different kinds of insects, and their transform- 

 ations, so that we can talk about them intelligently. Suppose 

 I talk Greek, and you talk Latin, and my neighbor talks Ger- 

 man ; if we all got together, we should not make much head- 

 way, because we could not talk intelligibly. We must know 

 the language which serves to describe insects, in order to con- 

 verse together intelligently in regard to them. Now, I want 

 to suggest, that when your Agricultural Societies offer their 

 premiums this year, instead of saying " For the best crop of 

 corn, $2.00; for the second best, $1.00," and so on, they 

 offer a copy of Harris's " Insects Injurious to Vegetation," 

 or, what would perhaps be better. Dr. Packard's " Guide to 

 the Study of Insects." They are illustrated, they give all 

 this information with regard to insects, they 'describe, more 

 or less particularly, the chief injurious and useful insects, 

 and in that way at the cost of a few dollars, you can scatter 

 around, in many of your farm houses, the sources of inform- 



