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been put up in 59 of the 168 towns of the State. 

 The cost of these bare buildings, apart from the 

 machinery that went into them, was $1,949,104. 

 By the erection of these new factories and addi- 

 tions, employment has been furnished to 3,965 

 more mill operatives in this State than before. 



" From July 1, 1899, to Dec. 1, 1900, there were 

 brought to the attention of this bureau 51 strikes 

 and 2 lockouts. Of these 18 were successful, 12 

 partially successful, and 23 unsuccessful. Sixteen 

 were for increase of pay, 9 against reduction of 

 time or wages, 1 for nine hours, 9 for discharge of 

 non-union men, 2 for reinstatement of man dis- 

 charged, 5 on account of dissatisfaction with 

 rules, 2 ordered by head organizations, 2 against 

 increased speed, 2 were sympathetic, 1 for objec- 

 tion to fines, 1 for being docked for poor work, 

 1 for allowance for overtime, and 2 on account 

 of misunderstandings. The total number idle 

 during the seventeen months covered by this in- 

 vestigation was 5,776." 



License. The returns of the vote on license 

 in October show a net gain of 3 towns for no 

 license. There are now 74 communities in which 

 license is approved by majority vote of the resi- 

 dents, and 94 where it is not. 



Products and Industries. The census report 

 of 1900 on agriculture in the State shows that 

 there were farms to the number of 26,948, com- 

 prising 2,312,083 acres, or 74.6 per cent, of the 

 land surface. Of this 1,064,525 acres were im- 

 proved. The proportion of improved farm land 

 decreased steadily from 74.2 per cent, in 1850 to 

 46 per cent, in 1900. Such changes in the use of 

 land are incidental to the growth in Connecticut 

 in the last fifty years of the dairy interest and an 

 increase in the area devoted to market-gardening. 



In the last ten years the total farm wealth 

 of Connecticut increased $5,254,872. 



The dairy interest, the produce of which in 

 1899 was valued at $7,090,188, or 32.1 per cent, 

 of the gross income of farms, stands first in the 

 agriculture of Connecticut. If to this value be 

 added the income derived from poultry and eggs, 

 animals sold and slaughtered, wool and mohair, 

 and honey and wax, the great relative importance 

 of the animal industry is strikingly shown. The 

 aggregate value of these items in 1899 was $11,- 

 651,359, or 52.7 per cent, of the income from all 

 sources. 



Most of the good tobacco land is found in Hart- 

 ford County, which, in 1899, produced 80.2 per 

 cent, of the tobacco raised in the State, and over 

 half of that grown in the 6 New England States. 



The report on the manufacturing industries of 

 the State gives the following figures: Number of 

 establishments, 9,128; capital, $314,696,736; wage- 

 earners, average number, 176,694; total wages, 

 $82,767,725; miscellaneous expenses, $23,089,806; 

 cost of materials used, $165,641,219; value of 

 products, custom work, and repairing, $352,624,- 

 106. 



Railroads. The gross earnings of the rail and 

 boat lines combined for the year ending June 30, 

 1901, were $44,295,541.11. For the year ending 

 June 30, 1900, $44,310,852.76. 



The figures for 1901 include the earnings of 

 the New Haven Steamboat Company for a full 

 year, while those of 1900 include only two months. 



There have been charged to operating expenses 

 during the year for betterments and new equip- 

 ment to meet general depreciation $2,425,814.76, 

 and there have been charged to cost of road and 

 appurtenances $143,060.97 for purchases of real 

 estate. 



The length of main line and branches in the 

 State is 1,013.35 miles. The length of the second 



track is 248.55 miles, and the length of the third 

 and fourth tracks is 42.44 miles. There are also 

 474.49 miles of sidings. 



The total length of the street-railways in opera- 

 tion and reporting to the commissioners for the 

 year ending June 30, 1900, is 471 miles, exclusive 

 of sidings. This shows an increase during the 

 year of 54 miles in the length of main tracks. 



Dividends were paid by 10 out of the 31 com- 

 panies reporting amounting to $322,800.48 upon 

 $7,325,000 of capital stock, while no dividends 

 have been paid on $4,818,448 of capital stock. 



Insurance. On Jan. 1, 1901, there were in the 

 State 58,539 policy-holders in life-insurance com- 

 panies, the amount of insurance outstanding be- 

 ing $108,163,343. Of this sum $31,182,546 was in 

 Connecticut companies. The policy-holders in 

 Connecticut companies numbered 18,051. The 

 amount of claims paid in 1900 in Connecticut was 

 $2,122,342. The Connecticut companies paid 

 $761,584. The amount of premiums paid was 

 $4,144,476. The Connecticut companies received 

 $1,485,176. 



Payments in 1900 for taxes, salaries, etc., in- 

 creased over 1899 with Connecticut companies, 

 $953,099.55; companies of other States, $2,112,- 

 114.04; and industrial companies, $882,103.96; a 

 total increase of $3,947,317.55. The actual in- 

 crease in principal invested during 1900 was $54,- 

 451,643.40, the market value being in excess of 

 this amount by $11,381,437.18. 



Education. The school fund, Sept. 30, 1900, 

 was $2,018,641.29; the cost of its management 

 was $18,081.28. 



The State pays for the instruction of the blind 

 at the Perkins Institute and at a private institu- 

 tion at Hartford, the proprietor of which was 

 till this year a member of the State Board of 

 Education for the Blind under a law of some 

 years' standing requiring that one member should 

 be blind. This provision was repealed by the last 

 Legislature, and another appointment was made. 

 The State Board of Charities recommended that 

 no more special appropriations be made to the 

 institution till after careful investigation. Fif- 

 teen S|;ate inmates were kept at this institution, 

 and about 19 at the Perkins Institute. 



There has been much trouble at the State 

 Agricultural College, formerly called Storrs Agri- 

 cultural School. The grounds of complaint seem 

 to be, first, that from a strictly agricultural in- 

 stitution it has been made into an academic one; 

 and, second, that the recent administration has 

 been open to criticism, partly on account of lack 

 of discipline and partly on account of neglect to 

 emphasize the work for which the school was 

 founded. Several professors resigned this year, 

 and many students left, so that at the close of 

 the school year only 38 remained. These notified 

 the trustees that they would not return if a 

 certain appointment should be made to the place 

 left vacant by the resignation of Prof. Mayo. 

 At length the trustees, at their September meet- 

 ing, retired the president by a vote of 7 to 2, con* 

 tinning his salary to July 1, 1902, though his con- 

 nection with the college was to cease at once. 

 The college had 22 persons on the salary list, of 

 whom 18 or more were professors or instructors. 

 The regular income consists of $15,000 from the 

 State, $25,000 from the Morrill fund, and about 

 $7,253 from the land-grant fund. Near the end 

 of October 53 students were in attendance. At 

 the last commencement essays were delivered by 

 10 graduates. 



Wesleyan University, at Middletown, graduated 

 in June a class of 68, the largest in its history. 

 At the fall commencement degrees were conferred 



