No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 435 



MR. SEXTON: Mr. Cbairman, the matter of fertilizers and fcrLi 

 lizing our land with clover seems to be a very important question 

 and the very useful paper that was read by Dr. Thayer yesterday it 

 seems to me ought to be published and spread broadcast over this 

 State. The advice in it was excellent and practical. I am not se- 

 lecting his paper because it was so much better than others, but it 

 seems to me that this paper on the growth of clover and how to 

 do it, ought to be thrown broadcast before the farmers of this Com- 

 monwealth, and I move that the Department of Agriculture be re- 

 quested to have that published in pamphlet form and distributed to 

 the farmers of the State. 



The SECRETARY: As a bulletin of the Department? 



MR. SEXTON: Yes. 



The motion having been seconded, it was agreed to. 



MR. CLARK: I would like to offer an amendment to that. There 

 are so many good articles written to-day along lines of this kind 

 that I would like to amend that by adding, that with the publication 

 of Dr. Thayer's paper, there shall be included any other matter in 

 it of importance bearing on the growing of clover so far as it can 

 be done without repetition. 



MR. SEXTON: I will accept the amendment. 



Mr. STOUT: Mr. Chairman, another thing I would suggest is that 

 these papers be examined by the Secretary of Agriculture and any- 

 thing that may be pertinent relating to our industries as farmers 

 that ought to be disseminated because of their importance, shall be 

 included in the bulletin issued by the Department; just an abstract 

 or abstracts from these various papers, a sort of synopsis. The 

 bulletins issued by some of the departments contain a brief review 

 in the back part of the bulletins giving an abstract of the contents 

 in a brief way, so that a person can look over them and get the gist 

 of the matter in a short time; something of that kind, it seems to me 

 might well be done in connection with this matter. 



The SECRETARY: That is a very important suggestion of 

 Brother Stout's, but I am afraid that that would place more work 

 upon the Secretary than he would be able to accomplish. It would 

 be no small undertaking to go over any single subject so as to cover 

 the literature of parties throughout the State and that issued by 

 the National Department of Agriculture and make such a selection 

 as Mr. Stout suggests. 



The Secretary is very busy, and while he is willing to do any 

 amount of work that he is capable of doing, he fears that he would 

 not be able to do that. If anything is to be added to this paper on 

 clover, wouldn't it be well to let the Executive Committee have 

 that matter in charge? I think perhaps they would have more 

 time and would be able to determine what is most important con- 

 cerning the growing of clover; there are eleven of them altogether 

 and they would perhaps be able to determine better than the Sec- 

 retary what would be best for the farming public generally. 



MR. FENSTEMAKER: Wouldn't it be best to leave that to the 

 discretion of the Secretary? 



