208 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



farm. We have one young man who is attending our school 

 for the second year, who says that he disliked the farm very 

 much, but his father was anxious for him to go there and get 

 an education, and now he says that what he has learned there 

 has made him well satisfied with the farm, and he wishes to 

 make farming his life work. 



Mr. Johnson. If 1 understand the question which the Sec- 

 retary read, it is about this — " How can the farmers of Con- 

 necticut best encourage the Storrs Agricultural School ? " It 

 seems to me that there are two ways in which it can be done. 

 One way has been spoken of by our friend Mr. Hubbard and 

 others. That is, for the farmers, the mechanics, and the 

 merchants, if they will, to send their boys to the school. That 

 is one very important thing. Another way is for the people 

 in the State to take what pains they can to inform themselves 

 in regard to the practical working of the school by visiting it 

 at their convenience. We represent a good many different 

 towns here to-night. Let each one, if he happens to hear the 

 person who represents his town in our next Legislature ask 

 any question about the ^torrs School, suggest to that mem- 

 ber, tliat if the subject of an appropriation for the Storrs 

 School should come up in the Legislature, to by all means 

 encourage every reasonable appropriation that is asked for. I 

 do not understand that the school is self-supporting. There 

 is a farm there, a farm superintendent, a corps of teachers, 

 and a good board of managers ; but they need fuel for the 

 engine in the way of proper appropriations from our State, 

 and I hope that our State Legislature will be liberal and ready 

 to make all necessary appropriations which the board of man- 

 agers of the institution may ask for. It certainly will be a 

 safe investment. The argument, that all the graduates of that 

 institution will not go back to the farm, is just as unsound as 

 it would be in regard to our State Normal School. We do not 

 think that, because there is a possibility that some of the 

 teachers who graduate from that school will not continue to. 

 teach all their lives, it is not worth while to encourage the 

 School. We know that many who graduate from there will 



