30 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



Mr. Gold. In reply to this suggestion, allow me first to 

 say a word in regard to the property that has been placed in 

 our hands for this purpose. The buildings were erected and 

 used by the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, some twenty years ago, 

 costing from ten to fifteen thousand dollars — money well 

 expended in substantial buildings. The farm consisted of 

 fifty acres, and we appraised the whole property at about fifteen 

 thousand dollars, as the lowest value that could be placed 

 upon it. It passed into the hands of Mr. Augustus Storrs. 

 He bought an adjoining farm of 120 acres — good, common 

 New England land, of the variety of soil and exposure that 

 we have here — added this farm to the original fifty acres, and 

 gave tlie whole as a free gift to the State for this purpose. 

 Really, the property could not be duplicated for less than 

 twenty thousand dollars. Such was the value of the gift that 

 was made by Mr. Storrs. An additional sum of six thousand 

 dollars was given by his brother, Mr. Charles Storrs, to put 

 the thing in working order and for drainage, and this, with 

 the other gifts to which Mr. Barstow has referred, have been 

 employed in stocking the farm and providing the tools and 

 appliances for the laboratory and for teaching purposes. 



And now as to our teaching force. Dr. Armsby, well 

 known throughout the State as an assistant for many years 

 in the Experiment Station with Prof. Johnson and Mr. 

 Jenkins, and as the author of an excellent work upon cattle 

 feeding, is a thoroughly accomplished educator in the depart- 

 ment which he is called upon to teach, that of agricultural 

 chemistry and its allied branches. Prof. Koons is a thoroughly 

 qualified and experienced teacher of botany, mineralogy, 

 biology, and those departments of natural history, a knowl- 

 edge of which lies at the foundation of all true agricultural 

 science. We have found in him a persistent worker and a 

 faithful associate with Dr. Armsby. Our farmer is a good 

 Tolland county farmer, Mr. Goddard. He is one of us, and 

 he is prepared to teach the boys what he knows, and to show 

 thera how Tolland county farming is practised, to the best of 

 his ability. That sums up the teaching force that our means 



