34 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



know where I should find the School, but I was told to get 

 out of the cars at Eagleville and foot it three miles up hill? 

 and I should find it. I guess it is three miles ! 



Tlie location is an admirable one for a school of that kind. 

 It is away from all the bad influences of village or city life, 

 in a locality as healthy as can be found. I think all the home 

 influences of the School (which I consider of the utmost im- 

 portance in any school) are admirable. I know of no place 

 where I would sooner trust my boys (I have four of them) 

 away from home, than I would under the influences of that 

 School. The Professors, I think, are well calculated for the 

 positions that they occupy, and in the matron, as Secretary 

 Gold says, I think the boys have one of the most motherly 

 and one of the best of women to take an interest in their 

 welfare, and it certainly has the most healthful home atmos- 

 phere that I have found in any school for a long time. I 

 commend it to the farmers of Connecticut, and I agree with 

 the gentleman from East Windsor, that the best way, and the 

 surest way, to inform yourselves in regard to the School is to 

 go there some day and see for yourselves. 



I spent the school hours of one day, most of them, in the 

 laboratory, with the professors and the classes, and saw the 

 manner in which they conduct their recitations. Everything 

 is perfect ; everything is conducted in what seems to me the 

 best way. It is in its infancy now, and, as has been said, it 

 is for the farmers of Connecticut to foster it, cherish it, and 

 sustain it, or it lies in their power to kill it. We can do 

 either one. But don't any of you say a word against the 

 School until you have visited the institution yourselves, and 

 informed yourselves in regard to the opportunities it furnishes 

 from what you see. After you have been there, you will not 

 raise any objections against the School, I think. 



Col. Warner, of Pomfret. I have no doubt that the Storrs 

 Agricultural School is well conducted, no doubt that its ap- 

 pointments are all that we might desire, but, in order to have 

 any institution or business in life successful, there must l)e 

 certain inducements offered. Now, the question that I want 



