296 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



The State Board of Agriculture in 1900 made an appropriation 

 from the limited funds at its disposal to defray the expense of collect- 

 ing and preserving in cold storage such samples of fruits and field 

 crops of that year's growth as would not be matured in time to ex- 

 hibit from the crop of 1901. This work, involving considerable time 

 and labor, was assigned to various committees, whose reports, hereto 

 annexed, of awards received at the exposition show how successfully 

 their duties were performed. 



When the Legislature convened in January, 1901, a committee of 

 the Board of Agriculture secured from it a sufificient appropriation to 

 insure a modest but respectable exhibit of the agricultural products 

 of the State, according to plans whose details had already been ar- 

 ranged by committees of this Board. It is worthy of note in this 

 connection that the expenses of the various committees were kept 

 well within the appropriation. 



Much credit is due to all who contributed time or labor or prod- 

 ucts of the field and farm, but special acknowledgment is due Messrs. 

 Piatt, Gully, and Phelps, the installing committee of the Board, to 

 whose zeal, intelligence, and ability we largely owe the success of 

 our exhibit. 



As will be seen by the following list of awards, the State of Con- 

 necticut received a gold medal for collective exhibit of agricultural 

 products and the Connecticut State Board of Agriculture a gold 

 medal for continuous display of fruits. 



LIST OF AWARDS TO THE STATE OF CONNECTI- 

 CUT IN THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AT 

 THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



GOLD MEDALS. 



J. A. Du Bon, Poquonock, for exhibit of leaf tobacco. 



L. B. Hass & Co., Hartford, for exhibit of spotted leaf Havana 

 tobacco. 



State of Connecticut, for collective exhibit of agricultural products. 



Connecticut Tobacco Co., Poquonock, for exhibit of shade-grown 

 Sumatra tobacco. 



