122 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



of Arizona. Thus, you see, there is the greatest diversity 

 in the development of these institutions. And when the 

 president of the Connecticut Agricultural College placed upon 

 our last year's catalogue, not the name that our legislature 

 gave to this institution, but the name which pleased him best, 

 and said that it was the " Connecticut College of Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts," he was seeking, I suppose, to place 

 before the thoughts of the people of the State a dual responsi- 

 bility, that thereby your attention might be called to the acts 

 of Congress I have referred to, and you might become aware 

 that you have, indeed, not -merely a dual responsibility, but a 

 manifold responsibility towards this institution. 



Now, then, what are we going to do in this State? We are 

 face to face with this condition : We have a number of classical 

 institutions, probably a sufficient number of such institutions, 

 which are strong in memories, fine in old traditions, and rich 

 in the flavor of classical learning as well as efficient in me- 

 chanical and scientific training. , Now, then, I repeat: what are 

 we going to do? 



Your legislators, it appears, looked over the situation and 

 said: " There is one class of people in this State that is being 

 robbed, comparatively speaking, of education. Therefore, 

 we will create a school which shall have for its leading object 

 the giving of education in scientific and practical agriculture," 

 and, as the result, we have the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege. At that college today we are better equipped for giv- 

 ing instruction in agriculture than in anything else, but we are 

 well equipped for giving instruction also in engineering. And 

 we are well equipped for giving education in business courses, 

 including typewriting and stenography, in business laws and 

 practice, in spelling, bookkeeping, and commercial arithmetic 

 and penmanship. 



If you have five boys on your farm, and you have a farm 

 that will not support more than one when you are through 

 with it, what are you going to do with the other four? 



Well, you know that farmers' sons have become Presi- 

 dents of the United States; and it is significant that the 

 man who procured the passage of this bill, the Hon. Justin S. 

 Morrill, came from a line of two generations of blacksmiths, 

 and ivas himself a farmer and a successful business man. He 

 was a man who had not had the advantage of higher educa- 



