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himself a chemist, went into that establishment and worked 

 as a common laborer for two weeks, and found that the stat€- 

 ments made by Prof. Johnson at the outset were correct. 

 Then you recollect that for a number of years the State agri 

 cultural society had analyses made. Then it was d'one by 

 the Board of Agriculture. It finally came into the hands of 

 the Experiment Station. This State was the first to establish 

 an Experiment Station, and what was the effect of it ? The 

 effect was to drive those swindling fertilizers from the State, 

 mostly, not wholly. There is no law, nor anything else which 

 will prevent all swindlers from coming in ; they will leak in. 

 One of the twelve Apostles was a Judas. Now, as I have 

 said, the Experiment Station has done a glorious work. It 

 has not stopped frauds in fertilizers entirely, but it has well- 

 nigh stopped them. It has driven those fertilizers so com- 

 pletely out of the State, that the man who was at the head 

 of the agricultural department in Georgia told me that when 

 they began to work there, fertilizers from other states came 

 in, and that one of his first acts was to discover ten thousand 

 tons in one lot that was being sold at forty or fifty dollars a 

 ton, which was worth less than eight. Those fertilizers were 

 driven out of the State of Connecticut. 



Now, we have had an Experiment Station for seven years ; 

 what we are talking about now is how to obtain the means to 

 establish it on a broader and firmer basis. When it was 

 started, the farmers looked upon it as a sort of trial and 

 wanted it run as cheaply as possible. It has had quarters for 

 five years free of rent furnished by the Sheffield Scientific 

 School. At the time it went there we said that we had a 

 couple of rooms which could be fitted up for the purposes 

 of the station, and it could have those rooms for five years 

 free of expense. The School fitted up the rooms with all the 

 necessary apparatus for laboratory experiments at an expense 

 of several hundred dollars ; it loaned the institution apparatus 

 to begin with, and they have been slowly buying the appa- 

 ratus that has been used since. The five years are up next 

 July, and the Scientific School wants the rooms for its own 

 purposes. For two years students have made application to 



