2 HANDBOOK OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE. 



OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF THE CONNECTICUT PATRONS OF 

 HUSBANDRY, FORIJ90J. 



OFFICERS OF CONNECTICUT STATE GRANGE. 



Master, B. C. PATTERSON, Torrington. 



Overseer, IVERSON C. FANTON, Westport. 



Lecturer, FRANK S. HOPSON, Station 3, Bridgeport. 



Steward, J. B. BLIVEN, North Franklin. 



Asst. Steward, ROBERT W. ANDREWS, New Britain. 



Chaplain, REV. C. H. SMITH, Plymouth. 



Treasurer, NORMAN S. PLATT, New Haven. 



Secretary, HENRY E. LOOMIS, Glastonbury. 



Gate-Keeper, E. H. WRIGHT, Clinton. 



Ceres, Miss GERTRUDE U. BRADLEY, Waterbury. 



Pomona, MRS. SABRA M. KELSEY, Higganum. 



Flora, MRS. MAUDE K. WHEELER, Storrs. 



Lady Steward, MRS. ALICE L. POTTER, North Woodstock. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



ORSON S. WOOD, Ellington, Term Expires, 1902 



J. H. HALE, South Glastonbury, " " 1903 



H. F. POTTER, New Haven, 1904 



B. C. PATTERSON, ex officio, " " 1902 



H. E. LOOMIS, ex officio, " " 1902 



FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



H. C. DUNHAM, Middletown. R. R. WOLCOTT, Wethersfield. 



GEORGE A. HOPSON, East Wallingford. 



THE EVOLUTION OF CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURE during 

 the first half of the last century was at a limping gait, but 

 with the outbreak of the Civil War it progressed with rapid 

 strides. Necessity, the most potential of all the influences 

 that impel men and nations forward in the march from the 

 old to the new, gave to agriculture an impetus whose force 

 is still unspent. 



Invention saw the fields waiting to be sown, and the har- 

 vests ungathered, and gave us substitutes for able-bodied men 

 in the form of farm machinery. Science, too, lent her aid, 

 and by her development of new and more simple methods of 

 culture, the agriculture of to-day has transferred its allegi- 

 ance from muscle to brain. 



In such a tumult of jchange, such a casting off of theo- 

 ries and methods, such an upheaval of long-laid foundations, 



