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enough organizing ability to start and carry through a plan 

 of this kind. It is not any new or untried scheme. It is 

 done in other states. The members of one grange in New 

 Jersey, for instance, have often bought hundred-ton lots to- 

 gether, with a very large saving to the members. Why can 

 we not do it? If the first order is not a large one, its results, 

 if well managed, will serve as an object lesson and commend 

 the plan. Now is the time to begin. 



The station will continue to give all the help which it can. 

 In a few days we shall put in your hands the fertilizer report 

 of 1901. A careful study of it will pay you. And do not 

 confine your attention to the columns of cost and valuation, 

 nor to the analyses of mixed fertilizers. What we want to 

 know chiefiy is the cost in market of plant food: of nitrogen, 

 phosphoric acid, potash, and lime. Then we can figure for 

 ourselves whether we can do better by buying them ready 

 mixed or by buying and mixing at home. 



The President. Are there any who would like to ask 

 the doctor any questions? This paper has been so clear and 

 forcible, and so easy to understand, and so practical in every 

 way, it seems to me when we have that paper to read in our 

 report we can get the whole matter. 



Secretary Brown. Mr. President : I have a letter from 

 the superintendent of the Bridgeport Public Library - — which 

 I have duly acknowledged with thanks of the Board — in 

 which he says that it gives him much pleasure to place the 

 library reading-room at the disposal of those attending this 

 meeting of the Board during their stay in the city. In ac- 

 cordance with the invitation, I hope the members of the 

 Board with their friends, and the delegates, will make use of 

 the library. 



Now, if it is agreeable, I would like to submit a few ques- 

 tions taken from the box. The first is, " What has military 

 science to do with education in agriculture at the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College ? " 



Prof. R. W. Stimson. Mr. President : I thought prob- 

 ably you had enough of me this morning, and probably most 



