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cess. You yourselves can help us in that way. But, more 

 than anything, we want your sons and daughters for students, 

 because, as I have said before, an educational institution which 

 is doing nothing to educate is a contradiction in terms, and 

 must be to the end of time. 



The President. You will have an opportunity later to 

 ask questions of Professor Stimson. We will now proceed 

 to the next topic, which is " Diseases and Insects Injurious 

 to Orchards and Field Crops." Professor S. A. Beach will 

 speak to us on this topic. 



DISEASES AND INSECTS INJURIOUS TO OR- 

 CHARDS AND FIELD CROPS. 



By Prof. S. A. Beach of Geneva, N. Y. 



Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen: Years ago 

 Connecticut was noted all through New York State, and I 

 suppose to some extent throughout the nation, for a peculiar 

 agricultural product — the nutmeg. We always knew of 

 Connecticut as the " Nutmeg State." In the year 1875 Con- 

 necticut gained agricultural distinction in another way, which 

 was by establishing the first agricultural experiment station 

 in the United States. We have today fifty-five agricultural 

 experiment stations in the United States, not counting those 

 in the insular possessions, and the beginning which was made 

 here in Connecticut in 1875 was the forerunner of the move- 

 ment which has spread throughout the nation, and which is 

 today one of the strong, vital forces which are lifting up the 

 agriculture of the United States to the foremost position in 

 agriculture of any nation of the world. Today there is a 

 broad, world-wide scientific movement, and agriculture is re- 

 ceiving the benefit of that movement, and the agricultural 

 experiment stations are doing a great deal for the uplifting of 

 agriculture everywhere. They are the logical outgrowth of 

 the agricultural colleges established by the land-grant act. 

 When the professors of agriculture and horticulture got their 

 courses organized to start out in that new field of effort they 

 found that there were many things concerning which they 



