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Experiment Clubs. 



With the view of advancing agricultural knowledge in this 

 way, and also with the view of bringing the Chemical Depart- 

 ment into more intimate relation with the wants of agriculture 

 in the various districts of the country, the Society is desirous 

 that a number of local experiment clubs should be organised 

 to carry out experiments useful to the locality; that these 

 experiments should be undertaken by the different members 

 of a club, each at his own farm ; and that they should be 

 under the supervision of a local committee of members ap- 

 pointed for the purpose. In the event of such clubs being 

 formed the Chemical Department will assist the members of 

 the club in every way they can. The Chemist will visit the 

 locality, and co-operate with the members in arranging the 

 experiment in such a manner as to secure useful and trust- 

 worthy results. All chemical analyses in connection with the 

 experiments, and approved of by the committee, will be under- 

 taken by the Society's chemist. The Society will also assist 

 in defraying any extra expense incurred in superintending the 

 experiments, and will provide printed instructions for carry- 

 ing them on, and all necessary schedules for registering the 

 results. 



As regards the nature of the experiments which might pro- 

 fitably be taken up by such clubs, the committee have no desire 

 to dictate. They would prefer that each club should decide for 

 itself what is the kind of experiment the members would like 

 to try. These might be experiments in manuring for special 

 crops, or for special purposes ; the improvement of land or of 

 pasture ; the laying down of pasture ; the management of grass 

 and other crops on stock farms ; the preservation of crops in 

 different ways ; or they might be feeding experiments, such as 

 have been already referred to ; or the cultivation of new crops ; 

 or the utilisation or economising of waste substances ; or any 

 kind of experiment whatever in which the resources of the 

 Chemical Department and its operations can be of service to 

 the members. 



