no BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



shall remain. lie has been the corner-stone of the great struc- 

 ture of the republic, and the rains have descended upon it, the 

 winds have blown, and they have beaten upon that house, and 

 it has fallen not, because it was "founded on a rock. 



The President. The convention will now stand ad- 

 journed until ten o'clock tomorrow morning. 



MORNING SESSION. 



Wednesday, December i8, 1901. 



Convention called to order at 10 a. m., Vice-President 

 Seeley in the chair. 



The President. When I was a boy if you hadtold my good 

 old grandfather that we were going to have a Connecticut 

 Agricultural College in the State of Connecticut he would 

 have said: "Well, my little boy, I guess you do not know 

 what you are talking about. Farmers' boys do not need any 

 college to go to. If they can learn to read and write, and 

 learn a little about arithmetic so that they will know enough 

 to keep from being cheated, and learn how to raise a good 

 crop of corn and potatoes, I guess that is about all the college 

 that the farmers' boys will get." Well, you know times 

 change, and we have had some wonderful changes in the last 

 fifty years in the State of Connecticut. We have got an agri- 

 cultural college, and what is rather strange, even today, is that 

 we have not some gray-headed man like myself to introduce as 

 the president of that college. But we have a young man who 

 is the acting president of that college today, and I am very 

 happy to introduce this young man. President Stimson, who 

 will address us at this time. 



