100 STATE BOARD OF AGEICULTURE. 



''What is the cause and remedy of grape rot?" **0f pear blight ?" ^'Of the 

 yellows?" " What are the tiatnes of the best scientific periodicals, and the 

 pi'ice?" ** The title of the best treatise on grasses?" " I want a collection of 

 all of your £rra«ses for a fine grange hall?" " What is the best microscope for 

 me to get?" (several letters). "How can I improve my Indian corn?" 

 " Will early and late corn mix?" "How far apai't will corn mix?" ''What 

 is this monstrosity of a flower which I send you?" " How to preserve fence 

 posts?" "How to grow seedling strawberries?" "What do you think of 

 Shoemaker wheat?" " Is wheat close fertilized?" "Please check off a list 

 of desirable trees and shrubs." "Name, please, 100 kinds of wood." 

 ** What do you think ? Is there a demand where I live for an agent to sell first- 

 class ornamental trees?" "Can you recommend a first-class teacher of agri- 

 culture?" " I send you some worms found in my well in New York State?" 

 "Please name a good club-bearded wheat." "Please name these galls on a 

 grape leaf." "Wliatis this fungus on the quince, and a remedy?" " I want 

 nformation about growing timber, especially black walnut." A professor 

 asks about courses of study and student labor. " How to plant chestnuts?" 

 " What about these tree dealers in Ohio who sell apple trees and peach trees at 

 five dollars apiece?" "What do you think of the White Ann Arbor grape ?" 

 "Can you recommend a good Professor in Botany to begin on a low salary?" 

 "What, grass should I buy and whore shall I get the seed for my dry lawn in 

 Texas?" "I have improved Indian corn by saving seeds from the tassels. 

 What do you think of it?" " How to prepare ground for seeds of red cedar?" 

 " Please crive a ])lan, with list of trees and plants, for improving our school 

 grounds?" " Please make out a list of pears for market?" " How to raise 

 seedling evergreens?" "What white onions keep best?" "Tell me about 

 alfalfa." " Tell me about your appropriations for horticultural department." 

 Another asks all about "your appropriations in agricultural department." 

 "What is the best grass for a marsh?" (several inquiries). " Will acorns live 

 many years in the ground; will oaks come without seeds; do fish die in the 

 ocean ? How about weeds which come up about newly dug wells — weeds unlike 

 any others in the country?" "What is the relative nutritive value of white 

 and yellow corn?" " I want to learn how seeds deteriorate." "I want help 

 to write an essay on the topic last named." " What is the title of a good book 

 on hybridizing flowers?" "What is the matter and remedy for these peach 

 branches sent you?" "Please give me names of persons to collect timber for 

 a museum." "What ails this twig of pine on which the ends of the leaves 

 are dead?" (two inquiries — one from Illinois and one from Wisconsin). 

 "Can you explain this head of wheat with chess growing out of it?" (t;hree 

 or four specimens sent by as many men. Tlie specimens were all examined, 

 explained, and returned to the senders.) An editor inquires about a new grass 

 and a tree bean. "When to tiim evergreens?" "Have you an idea that all 

 the plants now on the earth were created at the Adamic creation, or have some 

 of them been brought forth later?" "Do you believe it possible for any 

 mixture of soils or elements to produce any i)lant, as rag-weed, for example?" 

 These questions came from 18 or :^0 different States, including Texas, Califor- 

 nia,. Canada, Massachusetts. 



PUBLIC LECTURES. 



The writer is not a good speaker, especially to companies in the open air. 

 He has refused numerous requests in this State and in other States to address 



