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 Connecticut Agriculture 



HE Board receives from-the State $3,500 

 annually, also the State prints 5,000 

 copies of Annual Report, not exceed- 

 ing 35 pages. 



The Board expends the State bounty 

 in payment of salaries of secretary and 

 treasurer, paying traveling expenses, in 

 holding conventions or institutes, extra printing, and other 

 expenses as required for the agricultural interests of the 

 State. This current year twelve hundred dollars of this fund 

 is expended in collection of exhibit for Buffalo and in extra 

 printing. 



Our thanks are due to Hon. Leverett Brainard for the 

 exhibition at Buffalo of a full set to date of Reports of 

 the Board, bound for his own library, and donated to the 

 Agricultural College of Connecticut. 



By the authority of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 

 as secretary, I have been authorized to publish an Illustrated 

 Handbook of Connecticut Agriculture. The task then 

 seemed easy, as it was a familiar subject to me, but on study 

 the material demands encyclopedic space, rather than the 

 limited extent of a Handbook. 



Credit is given and thanks are due to those who have fur 

 nished many of the illustrations and also descriptions of 

 matters of interest. Otherwise the material is gathered from 

 memory and historical records of common circulation. 



Dear reader, kindly receive my well meant efforts, and 

 overlook the omission of the thousand and one familiar scenes 



