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soon leave the profession of teaching, but it is a good institu 

 tion nevertheless, and all who graduate from that school will 

 make better business men, or better wives and mothers, than 

 if they had not had the advantages of the State Normal 

 School. So the boys who attend the Storrs School, if they 

 should, after graduating there, for any reason, choose not to 

 continue in the business of farming, they will make better 

 men in whatever occupation they may choose for themselves 

 by reason of the education that they have received there. By 

 all means let us encourage the Storrs Agricultural School. 

 Adjourned to Friday, at 10.30. 



THIRD DAY. 



The meeting was called to order at 10.30, His Excellency 

 Governor Waller, President of the Board, ex-officio, in the 

 chair. 



ADDRESS OF GOVERNOR WALLER. 



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Crentlemen of the Convention : 



As ex-officio President of this Convention, it is my duty, I 

 am told, to preside at this meeting, and I shall undertake to 

 perform that duty to the best of my agricultural ability. It is 

 certainly a very great pleasure to have the opportunity to 

 introduce, as the first lecturer on this occasion, Mr. Cheever, 

 the editor of the JVew England Farmer^ of Boston ; a gentle- 

 man who, I am sure, is known by reputation to all the agri- 

 culturists of New England. 



Before doing that, I take the opportunity of expressing my 

 respects for the Convention and for the element which com- 

 poses it. I know, of course, but very little about agricultural 

 subjects. I suppose if I were to make frank confession it 

 would astonish you to see how very little I do know ; but I am 

 satisfied, from the education I have received during the year 

 by pleasant association with the men connected with the dif- 

 ferent agricultural departments of the State, that all the aid 

 the Commonwealth has given to your enterprises has been 



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