250 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



cultural College and the normal schools cooperating together, 

 should be prepared and sent out. That printed matter should 

 discuss this question, should contain helpful suggestions and 

 information in regard to this movement. I believe it would be 

 exceedingly profitable to have such printed matter sent out. 

 It will rouse interest in this subject, as perhaps can be done in 

 no other wav. It will take two or three vears to get readv for 

 this, and then there will be two or three years, necessarily, of 

 work in the normal schools in order that the teachers that are 

 sent out may be properly prepared. 



The teachers must not only be properly prepared to handle 

 this subject-matter to the best advantage, they must not only 

 have the instruction where they are willing to receive it, but, to 

 a certain extent at least, popular sentiment in the school dis- 

 tricts must favor this movement, and that needs to be developed. 

 We need to stand behind them. 



The President. Did I understand you to offer that as an 

 amendment to the resolution? If so, it ought to be written, 

 had it not? 



Secretary Brown. I would like to say to the last speaker 

 that the very literature which he suggests being sent broadcast 

 over the State of Connecticut we are preparing here this after- 

 noon, and the debate in which we are engaged will be printed, 

 five thousand copies of it, and the books sent out to every town 

 in the State of Connecticut. That is one of the educational 

 advantages of this meeting. It is one of the purposes in select- 

 ing the subject which we are debating, in order that informa- 

 tion concerning it may be sent broadcast over the state. The 

 information which we gather and concentrate here this after- 

 noon will be published together for the use of the public. I do 

 not know of any more feasible way of reaching the people 

 that it is intended to reach than through the course which this 

 board has adopted of reaching the people in this manner. So 

 I do not see the object of having any special literature pub- 

 lished and sent to the people outside of what will reach them 



