112 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



or general manager of the company, than is required of any 

 single large farmer, while the per cent, of profits from the 

 capital employed would be greatly increased. The subject is 

 a large one, as well as an important one, to us all. I wish I 

 could have handled it better in the ten minutes alloted me. I 

 trust I have said enough, however, to cause you to think about 

 it and discuss it. 



President Gulley : I suppose it is safe to say that not half 

 of this audience have ever visited the Connecticut Agricultural 

 College. You have not the least idea what we do or how' we 

 do it, and you don't know what we are trying to do. The 

 only way, if you won't go there, is to bring it over here. I do 

 a little horticultural work, and I have brought my "kinder- 

 garten class," — that is, the class that began this last fall. They 

 had never been in the institution until last August or September : 

 they are beginners in the art. I may say, too, they have not yet 

 gone into pomological work, as they only began on the subject 

 about ten days ago. What they have been doing is in vegetable 

 and floricultural work ; their demonstrations will be along that 

 line. 



We are not going to give you any new information, yet not one 

 of you at their age would have known anything about it ; these 

 boys are getting a ver}- early start. I have brought up half a 

 dozen of them to say a few words to you on some topics they 

 have had something to do with. 



Short papers with a demonstration of each subject were then 

 given by the following students : 



Clark H. Welton, ^^"aterville, "Three Parasites of House 



Plants." 



Roy C. Gulley, Storrs, "Protection by Water and Elevation." 

 William W^ Oflweiler, Bethel, "Propagation by Hardwood 



Cuttings." 



Paul W. GrafT, Bridgeport, "Propagation by Soft ^^'ood 



Cuttings." 



W. Robert Xash, Xew Britain, "Seed Germination." 

 vSherman P. Hollister, Washington, "Points of a Good Seed 



Drill." 



