2Q HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



being notified of the appearance of any such pest in any part 

 of the State, a member of the staff at once visits the place to 

 give what help is possible. 



Largely through this station, the very crude and unfair 

 methods of payment for milk and cream delivered by farmers 

 to creameries in the State have been replaced by a rational 

 system based on the Babcock test. 



DR. E. H. JENKINS, Director. 



THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, STORRS, 



CONN, 



In education as connected with agriculture shall we begin 

 with the common school and Webster's spelling book, in 

 which probably more persons have "learned their letters " 

 than in any other book in the world, or with " Yale Univer- 



THE RUDE BOY AND THE FARMER. 

 Noah Webster's Spelling Book. 



sity," the crowning glory of the State in all learning, and 

 from the earliest days a "patron of husbandry"? But space 

 forbids to take up the thread of history and show how they 

 blend^with agriculture controlling and controlled by it. 



From Yale, Wesleyan, and Trinity streams of light have 

 permeated all society, and agriculture has shared the benign 

 influence. The new movement for more practical agricultural 



