CHAPTER XI 



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A PIONEER IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



ONNECTICUT was among the first of 

 the States to promote agricultural edu- 

 cation. Jared Eliot of Killingworth, 

 preacher, physician and farmer, wrote 

 the first American book on agriculture, 

 ^'Essays upon Field Husbandry," published in 1747. 

 Though not the first in the field 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. 



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