The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-15
The 10Th ANNIVERSARY
or EXPERIMENT STATIONS IN
MTDDLETOI VN YESTERDAY.
pertinent Station Movement-Fifty-six
Stations Established Now Throughout
the Country-M emoriaI Address
Justin =. MorriI- Other Addresses.

Middletown, Nov 14-To Connect
cut belongs the honor Of establishing
the first regularly organized agricul-
tural experiment station in the United
States. The Connecticut station began
its work in the chemical laboratory of
| Wesleyan university in the fall of 1875.
Yesterday, the twenty-fifth anniversa-
ry was celebrated by the Association
of American Agricultural colleges and
experiment stations, which began Tues
day its annual convention in New Ha-
ven. The meeting in the morning was
held in the memorial chapel at 10
o'clock. An address was given by Pro-
fessor w. Fl. Jordan, director of the
New York experiment station, on the
experiment station movements in gen
eral and by Professor w. o. Atwater,
who was the first director Of the Con-
necticut station, on the movement in
this state.
The exercises in the afternoon were
held in Judd Hall and in the lower col
lege chapel and were devoted to spec
ial subjects connected with the work
of the stations. This meeting is of es-
pecial interest to people in this state
because of the great success and inn
portance of the experiment station
movement. The example set by this
state in 1875, was followed and stations
were established in number of other
states. So useful was their work that
in 1877 the enterprise was made nation
al by an act of congress establishing
these stations In all the states and ter
ritories. There are now fifty-six agrl-
cultural experiment stations. Stations
have been established in Alaska and
Hawaii, and one in Porto Rico has been
provided for and one in the Philippine
Islands is contemplated.
The experiment stations have in the
quarter Of a century grown to be most
important in our national scientific en-
terprises and the most extensive one
of the kind that any nation has under
taken. The popular support of these
institutions is due not simply to the
practical benefit which accrues from
the experiments which the stations
make in regard to the best methods of
the soil, manurlng the crops
feeding the stock, preventing diseases
of animals. and the like; it comes in
"a 8 Y letll LlOlIi Tic app NIllCH
the people at large feel for the intellec-
tual uplight which results from the
knowledge thus gathered by the station
and diffused broadcast The first es-
adjustment of the Connecticut station
was the result of the work Of num-
Der of far-seeing. public spirited men,
including not only farmers, but profess |
sors and men of science in our educa-
fonal Institutions, notably Yale univer- |
sity One of the most efficient in |
bringing the matter to a focus was the /
ate Orange Judd, at that time a resi-
lent Of this city, and the donor of Or
lnge Judd hall to Wesleyan
In the evening a memorial address on
Justin S. Morril was delivered by
George w. Atherton of Pennsylvania,
This morning at the general session
n New Haven miscellaneous business /
will be transacted, officers will be elect
d and reports will be read by the com
nittee on revision of the constitution,
nd the report on military instruction
n land grand colleges. Dr. Bernard
Dyer of London, England. will then
i've the results of experimentation at
In the afternoon will be meetings of 4
ections on entomology, horticulture
nd botany and mechanic arts, and
meetings Of sections on college work {
grculture and chemistry, {
In the evening after the miscellaneous I
usinesS will come nominations and {
Their reports from sections, including I
apCrts on methods of teaching agricul- 1
ire and on the pure food congress.
After this the convention will be ad- 8
burned, c