HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



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CHARLES L. BEACH, B.S., Assistant Professor of Dairying and Cattle 

 Breeding. 



HENRY A. BALLOU, B.S., Assistant Professor of Forestry, Botany, and 

 Military Science. 



WILLIAM A. STOCKING, JR., B.S.A., Farm Superintendent and Instructor 

 in Agriculture. 



ROBERT DALLAS, Instructor in Poultry Culture. 



CHARLES E. MYERS, Instructor in Farm Accounts and Business Methods. 



THOMAS D. KNOWLES, Instructor in English, Mathematics, History, and 

 Physical Culture. 



CHARLES E. MYERS, Secretary of the Faculty. 



Lucius P. CHAMBERLAIN, College Steward. 



STORKS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Officers same as Connecticut Agricultural College.] 



Station Staff. W. O. Atwater, Director; C. S. Phelps, Vice- Director and 

 Agriculturist; F. E. Singleton, Secretary ; A. P. Bryant, Chemist; J. F. Snell, 

 Assistant Chemist; H. L. Garrigus, Assistant Agriculturist. 



The Station is located at Mansfield (P. O. Storrs), as a department of the 

 Connecticut Agricultural College. The chemical and other more abstract re- 

 search is carried out at Wesleyan University, Middletown. 



HISTORY. 



At the time the Act of Congress of March 2, 1887, 

 known as the " Hatch Act," was passed, which provides that 

 $15,000 be appropriated annually to each State for agricultu- 

 ral experiment stations, there was, in Connecticut, a station 

 which had begun its work in Middletown, but had been trans- 

 ferred to New Haven. The General Assembly of Connecti- 

 cut, of 1887, provided that the appropriation to the State 

 under the provision of the above act should be divided, one- 

 half being placed in charge of the Board of Control of the 

 State station at New Haven, and the other half in charge of 

 the Storrs Agricultural School (now the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College) in the town of Mansfield, for the purpose of 

 establishing and maintaining an experiment station in con- 

 nection with the school. In March, 1888, this fund became 

 available and the Storrs Station was established, with Dr. W. 

 O. Atwater, professor of chemistry in Wesleyan University, 

 as director. The Wesleyan University again offered labora 

 tory facilities for chemical and other research in Judd Hall 



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