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tion. an increase of a thousand dollars for institute work. 

 But tiie fact is, it has not spent this money for institute work. 

 Then we have the Dairymen's Association, an association 

 specially organized for advancing the dairy interests of the 

 state, and a splendid organization it is, too. It is doing a 

 great deal of good work. Then we have the Pomological 

 Society, which has a splendid membership for a state the size 

 of Connecticut, which has more largely attended meetings 

 than any other agricultural interests in the state. Now, if I 

 were the State of Connecticut, Mr. Chairman, sitting over 

 there at the capitol, and with half a dozen interests and differ- 

 ent societies coming over there and asking for money, I should 

 begin to think pretty seriously about putting them all into one 

 bureau with an efficient head to manage the whole thing and 

 to direct the expenditure of money. It seems to me that that 

 would be the wise thing to do. It is what we will have to 

 come to sooner or later. Besides all that, Mr. Chairman, the 

 legislature is being asked for appropriations for the Agricul- 

 tural College, and for the experiment stations at two different 

 places, and the result is we are scattering the agricultural 

 money in a dozen ways and spending it for a dozen different 

 kinds of purposes, although it is really in the end all for the 

 advancement of the agricultural interests of the state. But 

 there is no question about it, Mr. Chairman, some of this work 

 duplicates the other, and it ought not to be carried on that 

 way. I think the Pomological Society has accomplished 

 more good for less money in the state of Connecticut than 

 any organization that is now in the field w^orking for the 

 improvement of our agricultural interests, and I think if it 

 had four times as much money, under the present manage- 

 ment, that the state would get more for the money than with 

 any other. I think if we go there and ask for what we need 

 for carrying on the work of the Pomological Society, we will 

 get it, because we ought to get it. If we go there because we 

 want to run some more institutes for the education of our 

 fanners, or because we want to double up with somebody, 

 I think they will double it for us, just as they ought to. The 

 legislature has usually been hiclined to treat the agricultural 

 interests pretty fairly. 



