14 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



institutions which I have in mind are the experiment sta- 

 tion, the college and the institute. The experiment sta- 

 tion is the institution which was designed to in- 

 vestigate and work our problems which would be 

 of interest and value to the farmers of the state, 

 problems which the farmer could not work out 

 for himself, and their work is distinctively that 

 of investigation and experimentation. Now the work of 

 the college is along the line of teaching, — teaching the 

 young men who come to the institution in certain neces- 

 sary lines of general education and special farm topics. 

 Now we cannot reach a great many. The statistics of 

 the country show that about one boy in five hundred goes 

 to college, and I suppose that the number in Connecticut 

 is not greater than that, so that our agricultural college pos- 

 sibly can reach one boy in five hundred, — one boy out of five 

 hundred of those who are to be the future farmers, or 

 the farmers of the next generation. So you can see that 

 the college cannot do a great deal to improve the agricul- 

 tural industry of the state. It is the third branch of the 

 educational system which must do the most to forward 

 scientific agriculture in the next few years. It is the 

 work of the Dairy Association, the Pomological Society, 

 and Board of Agriculture, and the Poultry Association. 

 This work which we call demonstration work or exten- 

 sion work will take the results which have been worked 

 out by the experiment station and endeavor to make them 

 clear to the farmers of the state. These results should 

 perhaps be boiled down by the college and put in as prac- 

 tical a form as possible, and so take those facts which 

 have been ascertained and make them as generally known 

 as possible. That is what the institution is for. These 

 institutions or these societies that I have just mentioned 

 have a very much larger audience, and reach a larger num- 

 ber of people than the college could possibly do. I believe 

 that this work should receive more attention in this state. 



