HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. ,H 



of Science, where, in October, 1875, had been established the 

 first State experiment station in this country, afterward re- 

 moved to New Haven. 



The farm and farm appliances of the Agricultural School 

 were placed at the disposal of the station for experimental 

 purposes. Prof. C. S. Phelps, of the Agricultural School, was 

 appointed as agriculturist of the station and vice-director, and 

 was placed in charge of cooperative field and dairy experi- 

 ments. Dr. H. W. Conn, professor of biology in Wesleyan 

 University, undertook and has since carried out, on behalf of 

 the station, investigations in dairy bacteriology. Mr. C. D. 

 Woods, who had previously been associated with Prof. At- 

 water at Wesleyan University, was the first chemist of the 

 station, and continued in that position until he was called, 

 in 1896, to be professor of agriculture in the University of 

 Maine, and director of the Maine Experiment Station. 



The total annual income of the station is less than that of 

 any other station in the country, with one exception. It 

 consists chiefly of the $7,500 appropriated by Congress, and 

 $1,800 appropriated by the State. Occasional gifts have 

 been received from private sources for carrying on special in- 

 vestigations. In addition to these, the station formerly co- 

 operated with the U. S. Department of Labor in carrying out 

 dietary studies, and now cooperates with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in its investigations on the food and nu- 

 trition of man, and is thus enabled to increase its efficiency 

 and usefulness. 



The trustees of the school to whom was entrusted the 

 care of the fund appropriated by Congress have allowed the 

 director, Prof. Atwater, to plan and carry out the work of the 

 station according to his own judgment, qualified as he was as 

 a successful pioneer in work of this kind. A portion of the 

 work done has been in continuation and development of in- 

 quiries begun by Prof. Atwater in the chemical laboratory at 

 Wesleyan University before the Storrs station was estab- 

 lished. Among these was a study of the fixation of free 



