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City of Hartford, and I assure you that you could come to no 

 community where your presence will be more welcome. I bid 

 you welcome today to Hartford, not only because of what you 

 represent, but because of what you are individually, and be- 

 cause of the vital interests which you are trying to stimulate 

 and cultivate, that of this great industry upon which the wel- 

 fare of so many of the human race depends. I bid you a 

 general welcome, thrice welcome, to the City of Hartford. 

 May your stay here be not only pleasant but highly profitable, 

 and may you be abundantly blessed in all your intelligent 

 efforts to obtain the ends at which you aim. I thank you, 

 gentlemen, for your attention. (Applause.) ~ 



Secretary Brown. Mr. Mayor and ladies and gentlemen : 

 On behalf of the State Board of Agriculture I desire to return 

 to his Honor the thanks of the Board for this cordial welcome 

 which he has extended to us. I am sure that no one in this 

 audience regrets more than I do the absence of the genial Gov- 

 ernor of the State, who was assigned upon the programme to 

 respond to this address of welcome, but for some reason he is 

 not present. I don't -know whether to consider myself a sub- 

 stitute or a drafted man. I know that forty years ago, when 

 they sent substitutes and drafted men down to the front, we 

 paid very little regard to them, for they were very little account 

 as a rule, but I do want to say that this Board highly appreciates 

 the welcome which his Honor the Alayor has extended to us, 

 and I want to say, further, that there is no antagonism between 

 the country and the cities in the State of Connecticut. It is the 

 growth of the cities of the State that has made farming in Con- 

 necticut possible and prosperous, and the more numerous such 

 cities as Hartford become the more prosperous will the agri- 

 culture of the State become. 



Now, I know you do not wish to have me keep you from 

 the rare treat which awaits you in the next speaker. I have 

 great pleasure in introducing to you President F. S. Luther of 

 Trinity College, Hartford, who will address you on " The 

 Country Boy." 



