REPORT 



OF THE 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE 

 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



AT 



New Haven, Conn., December 18, 19, and 20, 1906. 



MORNING SESSION. 

 New Haven, Conn., December 18, 1906. 



Preceding the opening of the Convention a musical pro- 

 gram, consisting of vocal selections, vv^as rendered. 



Convention called to order at 10.30 a. m., in Harmonic 

 Hall, New Haven, by Secretary James F. Brown. 



Secretary Brown. In accordance with the time-honored 

 custom of this Board, we invite you to unite with the Rev, 

 Dr. Phillips of this city in the invocation. 



Watson L. Phillips, D.D. Let us pray. O God, our 

 Father, we would recognize Thee in all our affairs. We would 

 begin and prosecute all our work under Thy direction and 

 by Thy help. We are dependent upon Thee; in Thee we live 

 and move and have our being. The earth is the Lord's, and 

 the fullness thereof; the sea and all that is therein; the cattle 

 upon a thousand hills, and all the forces and laws and processes 

 of nature. Thou dost care for the grass which today is and 

 tomorrow is cast into the oven. Thou dost feed the ravens 

 when they cry. Thou dost paint the lily in its beauty. Thou 

 givest the early and the later rains. Thou dost guide us in 

 all our plans and assist us in the execution of those plans. And 

 unto Thee we give the glory for all that has been and all that 

 is, for all we are and all we have, and all we hope for in this 

 world and in the world to come. 

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