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Mr. Dougherty : Cultivate well before planting. Harrow before up with 

 a slanting tooth harrow. Then cultivate pretty deep as soon as up and as it 

 grows, don't cultivate so close to it as to hurt the roots, and don't cultivate 

 too deep. 



Mr. Osborn: I have seen late culture do decided injury. 



I like to go through three times as soon as I can and to let it alone after- 

 wards. It is a mistake to destroy those rootlets, of course if you do so the 

 plant will try to send out more, but you have taxed its powers just so much. 

 I believe with Mr. Dougherty in gradually cultivating more and more shal- 

 low as the season advances. 



Senator Mars: In Missouri, they cultivate corn twice, and the sun flowers 

 and cockle burs fill up between the rows. I know a piece of corn where part 

 of a field was cultivated by boys three times only and allowed to rest in 

 harvest and a man cultivated the other part right through a dry harvest 

 season. He got 50 bushels and they 16 bushels per acre. 



Mr. Osborn : How is it possible to get moisture into the ground by 

 cultivating? 



Dr. Beal: Cultivation keeps the surface mellow, and that acts as a mulch 

 and retains the moisture. I would recommend shallow culture in such cases. 

 That moisture does escape from an exposed soil is shown by inverting a 

 glass over the soil ; drops of moisture will gather on the inside. 



Mr. Langley: A neighbor raised 60 bushels per acre in Colon and said he 

 did it by keeping the cultivator going right through the season. 



The different representatives of the Agricultural College then gave son^e 

 account of its various features, after which resolutions were adopted oppos- 

 ing the repeal of the Agricultural Statistics Law and advocating the change 

 of the law as to appointment and remuneration of the circuit court reporter. 



By resolution a committee was appointed on institute for next year, con- 

 sisting of Mr. J. C. Dougherty, Mr. D. Handshaw and Mr. John Wolf. 



ALBION INSTITUTE. 



PROGRAM. 



Wednesday, February 20, 1 P. M. 

 Music. 

 Prayer. 



Address of Welcome J. Warfcman, President Farmers' Club. 



Our Country Schools Mrs. Henry Bradley. 



Music. 



Industrial Education Hon. Edwin Willits, M. A., President Agricultural 



College. 



Evening Session, 7 P. M. 



Music. 



Prayer. 



Mechanics in Relation to Agriculture. W. F. Durand, Ph. D., Prof, of Mechan- 

 ics, Agricultural College. 



Sandy McDonald's Signal Mrs. C. Reynolds Smith. 



Music. 



The Nation's Wards W. L. Simpson, Lieut. U. S. A., and Prof, of Military 



Science and Tactics, Agricultural College. 



