1 8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



given a desire for upbuilding Thy kingdom in the earth, and for 

 the coming of justice and brotherly love among all men. 



Hear us in this our prayer ; guide, we beseech Thee, Thy 

 servants as they deliberate together ; and keep us all in Thy 

 keeping, and lead us all in Thy way, unto the glory of Thy 

 holy name. Amen. 



Secretary Brown. You are now invited to listen to an 

 address of welcome by his Honor William F. Henney, Mayor 

 of Hartford. 



Mayor Henney. Mr. President, members of the Connecti- 

 cut State Board of Agriculture, and friends : I esteem myself 

 very highly honored and privileged today in being permitted to 

 be here, at the invitation of your Secretary, to say a word or 

 two of welcome to you on behalf of the City of Hartford. I 

 do it with the greater pleasure when I recall that this Connecti- 

 cut State Board of Agriculture is a highly representative body. 

 That it is designed to be such is clearly indicated in the statutes, 

 for, as I understand it, it is made up of twelve men, selected 

 one from each Congressional district and one from each county 

 in the State. Territorially, certainly, nothing could be more 

 representative than a board made up in that way. The State 

 of Connecticut is indebted to the agricultural interests, to the 

 farmers of the State, for a great many things, and the city of 

 Hartford is indebted to the farmers of the State for a great 

 many things. The State of Connecticut has for its Governor 

 today the Honorable Abiram Chamberlain, who has told me 

 over and over again that he began life as a farmer's boy. Here 

 in the city of Hartford we have very many of our most promi- 

 nent men who are fond of talking of the days of their boyhood, 

 when they were brought up on the farm, and we are particu- 

 larly fortunate in that one of our most representative and dis- 

 tinguished citizens was himself a farmer boy, and is now the 

 able and distinguished president of Trinity College. If I had 

 no other inducement to bring me here today, officially, to say 

 a word of welcome to you, that fact would be amply sufficient. 



