PIONEER IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



Perhaps without an exception, those who knew Mr. 

 Gold best will agree that his greatest achievement was 

 as secretary and official executive of the Connecticut 

 State Board of Agriculture. Though not the first board 

 of its kind in New England, it has had an almost con- 

 tinuous and a very useful career for a period of fifty 

 years. From the time of its establishment in 1866 for 

 more than thirty years, Mr. Gold was its secretary and 

 the guiding force that shaped its policies. The reports 

 of this board were, for many years, sought by students 

 of agriculture in all parts of the country, as a source of 

 many of the latest teachings in the science of agricul- 

 ture. The speakers at the board meetings, whose ad- 

 dresses were published in full, stood forth as exponents 

 of the new science of agriculture. Mr. Gold's work, as 

 secretary of this board, was the chief factor in leading 

 farmers of the State to accept the new teachings in rela- 

 tion to agriculture, which at first were regarded with 

 suspicion or indifference, but which are now accepted 

 and used by nearly all farmers. 



The winter meeting of the board was for many years 

 the chief agricultural event of the year in the State. 

 The program, thoughtfully and logically arranged, 

 gave the audience the best knowledge and thought on 

 scientific and practical farming and home-making. It 

 was characteristic of these meetings that, each year, one 

 leading theme ran through the whole program. One 



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