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land will become so thoroughly saturated with the poisonous matters 

 from this one plant that it will interfere with the production of that crop 

 very materially. To remedy these evils the Department of Agriculture is 

 co-operating with tlie State Experiment Stations all over the country, — 

 the station at Washington being the center of all this work. And through 

 the worlf of these state experiment stations and the Department work 

 at Washington the same conchision has been reached, — that the proper 

 rotation of crops is the best way to allow the soil to throw off these 

 poisonous matters. They recommend the planting of alfalfa and clover 

 on ground affected by continuous planting of one crop until all these 

 poisons are destroyed because of a lack of proper food and nourishment, 

 and then you can begin all over again and raise just as good corn 

 as before. 



This is simply a great big question of education. I wish I could 

 take you all down to Washington and show you through the different De- 

 partments down there and shown you what they are all doing for the 

 American people. One of the first things that impressed me was the 

 great fund of information, and this information is absolutely free to the 

 people of the country simply for the asking. For every line of investi- 

 gation that is being carried out they publish bulletins, pamphlets, books, 

 etc., but many of these are in such technical language that the average 

 farmer would not understand them. When I became a member of the 

 Agricultural Committee one of the things that impressed me most was 



that more provision should be made for getting all this information to 

 the poeple. The people of the country should have the benefit of it. The 



Government is carrying on investigations in other lines of work, and in 



all of these there is abundant information for the farmer, 'but he does 



not get all the benefit from it that he should. If the farmer of the country 



knew of the results that could be accomplished by the recommendations 



of the Government they could increase the yield of their corn from 



twenty to fifty per cent, they could increase the yield of their wheat 



from ten to forty per cent every year. 



And I want to say in conclusion, that I hope the people of Richard- 

 son County, whenever they get the opportunity, will help the farmers of 

 this country by getting for them the advice and counsel of the men 

 from this great Department of Agriculture, and help them to increase 

 their farm production, to get more out of it, and help to make easier their 

 declining days of life. I thank you. (Applause.) 



Mr. Swan: Mr. President, I move that Miss Edna Crooks be made 

 .an Annual Honorary member of this society. Motion carried unanimously. 



The President: We will now have the report of Committee on Final 

 Resolutions. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Your committee on resolutions wish to express the appreciation of 

 the Nebraska State Horticultural Society to the citizens of Falls City 



