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tional copies of " Science as a Means of Agricultural 

 Progress" were printed by the Connecticut Board of 

 Agriculture and distributed throughout the state, thus 

 bringing the subject effectively before the people. 



Professor Peter Collier, at this time secretary of 

 the Vermont Board of Agriculture, wrote frequently 

 and fully, telling of his part in the campaign for agri- 

 cultural progress in Vermont. In a letter dated De- 

 cember 30, 1873, he expressed regret that he was 

 unable to attend the Meriden meeting of the Connecti- 

 cut Board, and in closing, said: 



So you see the cause is moving, up in Vermont. I hope I 

 may see you all again this side Heaven, but really it looks 

 doubtful, still I hope you will not forget one who in certain 

 respects follows you as one of his namesakes followed his 

 Master, though like him "afar off." 



In his letter of March 7, occurs a breezy comment on 

 the experiment station movement in Connecticut: 



Are you going up to Hartford on the 24th instant? I see 

 you are announced as expected, so also am I. "Well, the good 

 Lord has given me sense enough to know when I am not 

 needed, and that is to talk Agricultural Chemistry when you 

 are about, and so I write hoping to know whether you are to 

 be there. 



At the next winter meeting of the Connecticut Board 

 of Agriculture, held in December 1874, its committee 

 on the experiment station reported a favorable recep- 

 tion of the idea among that part of the community 

 which they had been able to reach ; and gave an account 

 of a meeting of their committee before the Legisla- 

 ture 's committee on agriculture where the subject was 

 discussed in detail with a strong delegation of leading 



