HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 

 STATION. 



Board of Control. His Excellency, the Governor, President ; T. S. Gold, 

 Vice-President, West Cornwall ; E. H. Jenkins, Director ; Wm. H. Brewer, 

 Secretary and Treasurer ; W. O. Atwater, Middletown ; B. W. Collins, Meri- 

 den ; Jas. H. Webb, Hamden ; Edwin Hoyt, New Canaan. 



Director. E. H. Jenkins. 



^Advising and Consulting Chemist. S. W. Johnson. 



Chemists. A. L. Winton, T. B. Osborne, A. W. Ogden, I. F. Harris, 

 M. C. Williams. 



Botanist. W. C. Sturgis. 



Horticulturist. W. E. Britton. 



In Charge of Work on Waste Land. Walter Mulford. 



Grass Gardener. J. B. Olcott. 



Clerk and Librarian. Miss V. E. Cole. 



Assistant Clerk. Miss L. M. Brautlecht. 



In Charge of Buildings and Grounds. C. J. Rice. 



Laboratory Helpers. Hugo Lange, William Pokrob. 



HISTORY. 



Connecticut was the first State in America to establish an 

 agricultural experiment station as a separate institution. A 

 law was enacted on July 20, 1875, appropriating $2,800 to 

 Wesleyan University at Middletown, " $700 per quarter for 

 two years," beginning October I, 1875, "to be used in em- 

 ploying competent scientific men to carry on the appropriate 

 work of such a station." The university tendered free use of 

 its laboratories and other facilities, and Mr. Orange Judd, a 

 graduate and patron of the university, many years editor of 

 the American Agriculturist, contributed $1,000 toward the 

 payment of expenses. Prof. W. O. Atwater was made 

 director. 



Before the expiration of the two years fixed for the dura- 

 tion of this station, the legislature established its successor 

 as an independent and permanent institution of the State, 

 "the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station," by an 

 act which became a law March 21, 1877, and appropriated 

 $5,000 annually for its support. 



This station, by vote of its Board of Control, was opened 

 July i, 1877, at New Haven, with Prof. S. W. Johnson as 



