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suits with each variety. Simply recognize that different varieties do 

 differently on different soils. The variety test is of some value as it 

 contributes to our linowledge what that variety will do. The kind of 

 worli that is going to do the most good is work of more strictly scientific 

 character. For instance, Professor P— k— r, of Wisconsin, has devised 

 a theory for food in milk. Now he has found something very valuable 

 to milk, the world over, wherever we find milk we can test the food in 

 milk with the Professor's test, and do it quickly. And just the same 

 with treatment of fungus on peach. Every peach sprayed with Bor- 

 deaux mixture will insure the crop against that disease and will wher- 

 ever they grow peaches. In one experiment station now they are study- 

 ing the red spot in cheese, spending hundreds of dollars trying to. find 

 out what makes red spot in cheese. The past year their efforts in that 

 line have given them such results that they can go into a cheese factory 

 and tell cheese men how to avoid having the red spot in cheese. One of 

 the main points I want to make in this paper is the point to determine 

 what work we should do at these stations. Let us determine the kind of 

 knowledge we are expected to get from it and decide which kind of 

 knowledge promises most far-reaching results. Let us set out with our 

 faces in that direction and keep at it until we get results. I believe as 

 I said in the paper that something ought to be done if we expect to 

 keep the stations. There are certain fundamental things that are prac- 

 tical and that have a claim upon our time and knowledge, which we 

 must meet. 



Professor Troop: I am very glad Professor Beach has presented this 

 matter to us in the way he has because I have felt that the people gen- 

 erally did not understand, did not appreciate the amount of work that 

 was expected generally of the station horticulturist and professor of 

 holticulture. 



Mr. Milhouse: I am glad to hear the paper which has been read 

 this evening. I learned, long ago, that no man can do experimenting 

 altogether for himself. I can get thoughts from experiments conducted 

 at Purdue and I can carry the idea out on my farm at home. After I 

 get all I can out of the experiment station I have to work part of it out 

 myself. I am recognized as a crank in our community. Some experi- 

 ments I have made were very successful, and in others I got my fingers 

 burned. 



Mr. Tilson: I have visited Purdue I suppose oftener than most of 

 you, and am satisfied with their work in the college, and also the work 

 in the experiment station. I am glad they have another to help there, 

 Mr. Stuart, and I want all of those seeds which are sent out by our Con- 

 gressmen, sent to Purdue and let them experiment on them. 



Close of evening session. 



