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the effect upon crop production of barn manure when shavings and 

 straw have been used as absorbents. 



What now seems to be of prime importance is that the results of 

 our experiments should be more widely known by the farmers of the 

 state. Where certain methods of tillage have been found superior, 

 some means should be adopted by which these methods shall 

 become more widely known and generally practiced. By estabhshing 

 co-operative experimental plats in various sections of the state, where 

 the Cornell methods can be illustrated, it is possible much good 

 would result. This plan has been successfully adopted with sugar 

 beets, and it would seem wise to adopt a similar practice with reference 

 to some other important farm crops. 



Very respectfully submitted. 



L. A. Clinton. 



