No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 4S9 



your neighbors, they will come to you for seed and thus they, you and 

 the cause of agriculture will be benefited thereby. 



In a dark corner of an alley in Paris there was a hook. On this 

 hook fifteen people committed suicide in a fortnight. The hook was 

 removed, and the suicides stopped. This is an illustration of the 

 power of suggestion. If I have this afternoon been able to suggest 

 a hook upon which the agriculture of the great Commonwealth of 

 Pennsylvania can be, not destroyed, but uplifted, my purpose will 

 have been accomplished. 



Mr. Clark inquired if the kernels of corn on the tips and butts of 

 the ear had been rejected in the selection of seed corn whether bet- 

 ter results would follow. 



PROF. HUNT: So far as hereditary power is concerned it don't 

 make a particle of difference whether it is the tip kernel or the butt 

 kernel. The experiment station at Cornell has tried this very ex- 

 periment and it has been shown that it does not make any difference, 

 they get the same result provided they have the same conditions. 

 Now it is very possible that in some experiments where they planted 

 tip kernels, the stand was not as good as where they planted butt 

 kernels; if anything, the jaeld is just a little bit in favor of the tip 

 and butt kernels in the experiments that have been made, instead 

 of the others. 



It pays to select your corn with this point in view and to work 

 with your corn-planter on your barn floor until it will plant the 

 same number of grains ninety-five times out of a hundred. That 

 thing cannot be too much emphasized, either, when the importance 

 of the corn crop is considered. 



The CHAIR: This very excellent address brings us to the close of 

 our program, and we are now ready to hear the report of our Leg- 

 islative Committee. 



i.Tr. Temple presented the report of the Legislative Committee as 

 follows: 



REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE READ AT THE 

 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AT ITS ANNUAL MEET- 

 ING, JANUARY 24 AND 25, 1905. 



Whereas, The Apairists of the State are threatened with destruc- 

 tion by contagious diseases, we recommend that such laws be enacted 

 as will give the bee-keepers such protection as is accorded to other 

 branches of agriculture. 



We believe in the enlarging of the office of the Economic Zoolo- 

 gist, by such assistance as is necessary, to make it possible to ac- 

 complish the work required of the farmers of the Commonwealth. 



We also endorse the application of the Economic Zoologist for a 

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