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that we wanted aid for this very institution, and they were 

 perfectly Willing to give it, but the farmers said, " It is not 

 necessary, we are getting poor ; we are going down hill." 

 And the next day those very farmers would vote fifty thousand 

 dollars for some foolish project, when they would not lift a 

 finger to aid the agricultural interests of the State. Now, I 

 say to you, representing the agricultural interests of the dif- 

 ferent towns of the '"^tate, it is for you to see the farmers of 

 your own towns who are going to the General Assembly, and 

 say to them that this is for your protection ; that you have 

 been swindled long enough : and had it not been for this 

 very Experiment Station at New Haven, many of you would 

 be worth hundreds of dollars less than you are to-day, because 

 you would have invested your money in those worthless com- 

 mercial fertilizers. 



I only rose to say these few words. Let this large body of 

 intelligent farmers say to themselves, " we- will put this mat- 

 ter beyond peradventure ; we will have this appropriation ; 

 we will make suitable preparations to secure it," and you will 

 have it. That is all there is to it. 



Prof. Brewer. A sugar planter in Louisiana informed me 

 personally, after looking over one of the earlier reports of the 

 Experiment Station, that he had paid more than fifty thou- 

 sand dollars for the very fertilizers which we had condemned, 

 and he said, " Judging by the results that we have obtained 

 on the sugar plantation, and looking at the analysis, I have 

 no doubt that I have been swindled out of more than thirty 

 thousand dollars of the fifty thousand I have paid." Now, 

 that fifty thousand dollars would have been paid by Connecti- 

 cut farmers, if it had not been for the check put upon such 

 things by the Experiment Station. I was going to say, in 

 regard to the dock mud fertilizer man to whom I referred, 

 that he did not, I am sorry to say, quite get his dues from the 

 State of Coimecticut. He, however, left the State, and out- 

 side he was not treated so kindly. Here we let him depart 

 in peace ; there they gave him board at the public expense. 



Mr. Augur. I represent one of the farmers' clubs of the 

 State, and I know very well the feeling in our farmers' club, 



