494 MICIIIGAlSr STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



to three weeks behind the proper time, it is sent out to our 

 farmers laden ■with matters of vital national importance, from 

 "The quantity of jute consumed per annum in the manufac- 

 ture of artificial hair," to " The efiect of street sewage on the 

 vital statistics of Calcutta." The only saving feature of the 

 entire document has been these same meteorological tables, and 

 with their expulsion its value is not worth the cost of mail 

 transportation. 



Shall records, carried with painstaking care through a half 

 score of years, bo now made useless because of one man's 

 whim ? Eather let the matter be set right at once, that the 

 truths which, through years of hard study, Nature has grad- 

 ually unfolded to our view, shall, in our own State at least, be 

 placed in the hands of those whom they most interest and 

 most concern. Let it not be objected that the co-oiDeration of 

 scientific men cannot be secured. They even now stand ready 

 for the work, as they have ever stood, craving no other com- 

 pensation than the benefits they believe will accrue to the 

 world and to science, when the man of science and the man of 

 practice shall press forward in the good work together, shoul- 

 der to shoulder. 



W. K. KEDZIE. 

 AgrieuUural Cdkge, Aprils, 1872. 



