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careful account of it. Now it is cheaper to make a mistake in 

 one place than it is to make a mistake in four or five hundred 

 or a thousand places. It is cheaper to demonstrate to your 

 satisfaction the best method of success in one place than to 

 make people attempt to attain such success in many. We, at 

 the experiment station, want to help you poultrymen. We want 

 to do four times as much as we are now able to do. We want 

 to do four times as much for the dairymen of this State, and 

 for the fruit growers, as we now do. The appropriation that 

 the federal government will provide, if this bill passes, will not 

 increase our capacity four fold, but it will increase it two fold. 

 This resolution puts upon the Secretary of the Board of Agri- 

 culture a duty. If you pass it he will transmit the will of the 

 Board of Agriculture to our several Senators and Representa- 

 tives. I hope, however, he will not stop there. I said in the be- 

 ginning that farming needs friends. How ? Last winter when 

 we wanted a dormitory at the Agricultural College, you went 

 up to Hartford on that day when the matter was under dis- 

 cussion before the legislature, and you filled the hall of the 

 House of Representatives. You said we need a good house for 

 our boys to live in so that they can get an agricultural educa- 

 tion, and you got the building. Now buy two postal cards, or 

 one postal and a two-cent envelope, and by spending ten min- 

 utes' time you can show your interest as a friend in this move- 

 ment for the advancement of agriculture in Connecticut and 

 in the country, and at large. Let every man here, I do not care 

 how many women — the more the better — write to every man 

 of our Representatives and Senators from Connecticut. Write 

 to your Representatives and Senators this: " Please send me 

 a copy of the Adams bill." Do not forget it. Or you can go 

 a little further, " Please send me a copy of the Adams bill ask- 

 ing for an increased appropriation for experiment stations." 

 When you get it read it through. The friends of agriculture 

 only ask that these measures shall be passed on their merits. 

 Read the bill. If you think it stands for what you want it to 



