CHAPTER XI 



A PIONEER IN' AGRICULTUIL^L EDUCATION 



OXNECTICUT was among the first of 

 he States to promote agricultural edu- 



t ^^^? j^ :ation. Jared Eliot of Killingworth, 

 R^^v^, ^yj|W Treacher, physldan and farmer, wrote 

 ^^^^^^!o^j "'St American book on agriculture, 



hsia;. i Husbandry.*' published in 1747. 



Thougr. ;: in the held among the institutions 



of higher education, instruction in agricultural science 

 was given continuously at Yale College from 1848, 

 when the first Professor of Agricultural Chemistry was 

 appointed, down to the early nineties, when the State 

 Agricultural College was established at Storrs. 



So in the line of agricultural schools Connecticut was 

 a pioneer, as probably the earliest successful farm 

 school in this country was the one established by Dr. 



