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sands of dollars. Why, sir, it is less than a tax of one dollar 

 upon each farm in the State for one year. 



Mr. Webb. In regard to this matter of the Experiment 

 Station, I know personally of the saving of several thousand 

 dollars to the State in the stopping of the sale of these fer- 

 tilizers, and it was done among the first work of the station. 

 I feel very thankful indeed for the benefit which I have re- 

 ceived personally in the transaction of my business from the 

 knowledge I have obtained from the perusal of the reports of 

 the station. I feel that I can prosecute my business more 

 intelligently and more successfully than I could before the 

 station was established. Aside from all this I do feel, and I 

 acknowledge it, a great deal of pride that the State of Con- 

 necticut was the first of the States of the Union to establish 

 an Experiment Station ; that it has had a wide and extended 

 and profitable influence not only upon this my native State 

 but upon all the States, and that the larger and more wealthy 

 States are copying after our little State. I am proud also to 

 learn that instead of the first cheese factory having been 

 established in New York, or even in Ohio, as I had previously 

 supposed, it was established in Connecticut. I am proud of 

 that, and I would not give a cent for a man or a boy who has 

 not some State pride. Now, I say to every man, look at this 

 matter in a business point of view. Investigate it, and do 

 not touch it unless you are convinced that it will be a profit- 

 able thing. When you are satisfied of that, take hold of it, 

 cherish it, sustain it, be proud of it. That, I say, is a point 

 worthy of consideration after all the others. 



Prof. Brewer. I wish to say only a word. When I said 

 that we needed from five thousand to ten thousand dollars, I 

 had in mind what was wanted merely to carry out the facilities 

 that we had. The facilities that have been given the institu- 

 tion really cost a good deal more than that. No five thousand 

 dollars, or even ten thousand dollars, would have made the 

 addition to the building which Mr. Sheffield made, and which 

 has been occupied by the station, and furnished the fixtures 

 which the Scientific School has put in there. I merely meant 

 that a special appropriation of five or ten thousand dollars 



