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many ways are not based on a study of any scientific analysis giving 

 its comparative feeding value for stock. He has been content in con- 

 sulting only the good effect the plant has produced for him, as shown 

 in the marked improvement of the soil, the continued good health of 

 his cattle, and their increase, and the quality and quantity of their 

 product at the pail and churn. All of which observations and expe- 

 riences lead to the belief that no single grain of the plant was e^^er 

 cast intelligently into Southern soil without profit to the sower. 



Respectfully. 



^\. Gett'^ 



Approved: 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, Febrimrij 26, 1900. 



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