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have allowed us to obtain, from tlie appropriation by the 

 State and the other resources at our command. Our object 

 has been (and this is the sole particular in which our school 

 differs from most others) to educate young men for the farm, 

 and not off from it. Bear that in mind. We impress upon 

 our teachers that we are seeking in every way to furnish that 

 kind of instruction, science for the farm. Keeping up their 

 habits of manual labor, so that they shall not be afraid to 

 dirty their hands or to soil their boots in the dew because 

 they have been to school, but shall be just as ready to engage 

 in any of the operations of the farm as they were before they 

 entered upon our course of study. It is our design to give 

 them an education that shall not only fit them for farmers, 

 but shall induce them to continue to cultivate the farm, and 

 to make the agriculture of Connecticut what it needs to be, 

 more intelligent. 



Mr. Allen, of East Windsor. I feel that this Storrs Agri- 

 cultural School, if it fails at all, will fail because the farmers 

 of the State do not know what it is. It is difficult to get 

 people interested in anything they do not know anything 

 about. I find it very difficult to get interested in anything I 

 do not understand, or do not know much about, and that 

 seems to me to be the great difficulty here. If the farmers 

 of the State would visit the institution and become famihar 

 ■with what is being done there, become acquainted with the 

 professors and with the system of instruction which is carried 

 on, and see the benefit that the pupils are deriving from it, I 

 think they would more fully appreciate the value of that 

 School. I have heard people laugh about it and sneer about 

 it, and call it an elephant that the people have got on their 

 hands to support. I have no doubt that there is a very general 

 feeling in some parts of the State of that sort. Now, I 

 should be very sorry to have that School fail of success 

 because the farmers of the State did not take an interest in 

 it, or did not know anything about it. I know that it is a 

 valuable institution. It is a Normal School for agriculture. 

 We have normal schools for the education of teachers for our 



