158 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



Resolved, that the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture 

 in annual convention assembled, endorses this step in agricul- 

 tural progress with most hearty approval, and 



Resolved, further, that the Secretary be instructed to trans- 

 mit copies of this endorsement to the several Senators and Rep- 

 resentatives from this State, together with a respectful and 

 urgent request that they lend this bill their earnest and favor- 

 able support." 



Mr. Stimson. May I say just a word in that connection? 

 The finest champion in Congress today, of modern progressive 

 agriculture, is the Hon. H. C. Adams, of Wisconsin. He is 

 aggressive, he is full of modern agricultural ideas. For several 

 years, in the face of big odds, he has struggled in the commit- 

 tee to secure the passage of a bill providing for an increased 

 appropriation for the different States for the benefit of the ex- 

 periment stations located within them. Several times he has 

 been very close to getting the bill through. This year if we all 

 work together with this best friend of ours who has appeared in 

 recent years, we believe that the bill will pass. The bill is un- 

 qualifiedly endorsed by the National Association of Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and by the presidents 

 of the colleges. The bill has no string to it whatever. A string 

 in previous years has been put on. For instance, a string of 

 this sort has been put on, providing that some one may say 

 how the funds shall be used in the different States. The bill 

 as it stands today is without a string of any kind. We in Con- 

 necticut will be at Hberty to say what this money shall be used 

 for. The experiment stations in Connecticut are investigating 

 some of the present problems of agriculture and problems 

 that are going to demand attention, and the stations are be- 

 coming very much pressed for funds to do this work, 



Mr. Tillinghast said this morning that he had no records 

 of his egg yield over a month or two that he wanted to make 

 public. We have an experiment in progress at the College by 

 which we are testing Mr. Tillinghast's method and keeping 



