CONNECTICUT 



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CONNECTICUT 



THE TARM ( 



MilK 



Tobacco 

 Timothy, Clover 

 Corn 

 Cultivated Hay 



Potatoes 



Cattle sold 



Poultry raised 



Butter 



Rowers, Plants 



Apples 



Coarse Forage 



Swine Slaughtered 



Peaches 



Horses sold 



Butter Fat 



Cream 



Calves . sold 



Nursery Products 



Green -grain Hay 



Strawberries 



Oats 



Cattle slaughtered 



Swine sold 



Rye 



Sweet Corn 



THE QUARRY 



Granite 

 TraprocK 



CONNECTICUT PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Government Reports 

 Millions of Dollars Annually 



5 10 



THE FACTORY 



Flour ,Grist 



Tobacco 



Paper Boxes 



Wire 



Manufactured Gas 



Dyeing etc. 



Sheet Metal 



Typewriters 



Pins, Needles 



Beer, etc. 



Meat 



Paper, Wood Pulp 



Musical Instruments 



Hosiery.Knit Goods 



Printing,Publishing 



Bread, etc. 



Clocks,Watches 



Lumber.Ti'mbeT' 



Electrical Goods 



Fur-Felt Hats 



Cutlery 



Automobiles 



Corsets 



Silver,Plated-ware 



Woolen Goods 



Firearms, Ammunition 



Silk 



Cotton Goods 



FoundTy,Machineshop 



Brass, Bronze 



over seventy high schools and four normal 

 schools, and the legislature has authorized in- 

 struction in trades and useful occupations in 

 towns and cities. Expenditures for free educa- 

 tion amount to almost $9,000,000 yearly. 



There is no state university, but there are a 

 number of endowed colleges for higher educa- 

 tion and an agricultural college at Storrs. Yale 

 University at New Haven, established in 1701, 

 is one of the strongest in the country; it is 

 described at length under its title in this work. 

 Besides the above there are the Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity at Middletown, Trinity College at 

 Hartford and the Connecticut College for 

 Women, founded at New London in 1911. 



Other Institutions. The state maintains un- 



der the supervision of the State Board of 

 Charities hospitals for the insane at Middle- 

 town, Norwich and Hartford, reformatories at 

 Cheshire, Meriden, Hartford and New Haven, 

 and the Industrial School for Girls at Middle- 

 town. The state also has a school for the 

 feeble-minded at Lakeville, two institutions for 

 the deaf, one for the blind and numerous hos- 

 pitals and sanitariums throughout the state. 

 The state prison is at Wethersfield. 

 Government. The constitution of the state 

 adopted in 1818 is still the basic law; up to 

 1914 it had received thirty-five amendments. 

 The executive officers are the governor, lieu- 

 tenant-governor, secretary, treasurer and comp- 

 troller. The general assembly constitutes the 



