762 - BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the State Dairy Association, and the Corn Growers' Association, recently 

 appointed a joint committee to present their request to the Legislature 

 for an appropriation to the State Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Lafayette, and 



Whereas, in order to make this request as effective as possible the 

 committee must have the intelligent co-operation of the farmers of the 

 State, it therefore submits the following statement for your information: 



The committee finds that practically the only fund available for experi- 

 mental worlv in Indiana is the annual appropriation by the Unjted States 

 Government and that Indiana has never appropriated one cent for the 

 work of the Experiment Station, as was contemplated when the govern- 

 ment first made its appropriation. Twenty-six States are appropriating 

 to their several experiment stations amounts varying from a few thou- 

 sand dollars to as high as $42,000 in Minnesota, and $87,000 in New York, 

 while the States adjoining Indiana on the east and west appropriated last 

 year amounts as follows: Illinois, $85,000; and Ohio, $61,000. 



The work accomplished by the Indiana Experiment Station fully justi- 

 fies the expenditure by the State of $25,000 asked for by the several 

 associations, through their joint committee, especially as this appropria- 

 tion will be in the nature of an investment which will bring large returns 

 to the State. 



It is proposed that this appropriation shall be applied in the following 

 specific lines of work: For live stock, including investigation and study 

 of successful combinations of feeding stuffs, methods and conditions of 

 meat production, and preparation of animals for market in Indiana; for 

 co-operative and other experiments with corn and other crops, soils and 

 fertilizers, including breeding of improved varieties of crops and their 

 adaptation to different soils of the State, and the fertilizer needs of soils 

 in different sections of the State; and for investigation and study of cows 

 kept, feeds used and returns secured from the milch cows on Indiana 

 farms and losses In skim milk; also for advancing the work of the station 

 now in progress, therefore be it 



Resolved, that this Association in annual convention assembled urge 

 its members to second the work of its committee in every possible way. 



Recognizing the valuable services of Secretary Van Norman. 



Resolved, that we extend to him our thanks and appreciation of his 

 work. 



Resolved, That we thank the supply men for their contributions and 

 Ivindly interest taken in llie convention. 



Resolved, that the tlianks of this Association are hereby extended to 

 the judges of the Indiana Supreme Court for the use of their room, and 

 to the State Board of Agriculture for the use of their room, No. 12. 



Resolved, that the thanks of the Association are due the Indianapolis 

 Cold Storage Company for their services in hauling and handling the 

 butter and cheese for exhibition. 



