m ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



PROF. ROBINSON: We did not get very complete returns; we 



had quite a voluminous report after the bulletin was out from 

 Alabama. It was generally unfavorable, due to soil and climatic 

 conditions. 



MR. AGEE: I saw a report from only one station from all over 

 the United States. 



PROF. ROBINSON: There were two station reports included in 

 the bulletin; others received up to that time, not more than four or 

 five, were indecisive. 



Questions and Answers on Prof. Wells W. Cooke's Paper. 



MR. McCLELLAN: Is there any way of hastening the action of 

 the nitrogen contained in the solid manure so as to make it available 

 as plant food? 



MR. AGEE: I was struck with the name that was added to that 

 question, that is from my friend Mr. McClellan, up in Knox, Penn 

 sylvania. You that have been up through his county, Clarion county, 

 know that he is up on the roof of the world and the season is so 

 short that I don't wonder that he wants something to hurry up the 

 action of farm manure. He can do that by applying the same 

 method used in England in a similar climate, that is by the compost- 

 ing of the manure. Down in the southern part of the State where 

 the season is longer, that is just what you don't want to do. You 

 want to save every bit of the organic matter, vegetable matter, as 

 well as the plant food, and you better let the action of the manure 

 be a little slower in order to save the organic matter rather than 

 to undertake to hurry it up by composting the manure beforehand. 



MR. SEEDS: Does the colored water running out of the barnvard 

 take away the fertility, and can land be cropped and made fertile 

 without concentrated fertilizer or barnyard manure? 



PROF. COOKE: It probably does; wherever you see colored 

 water running out of a barnyard, you may be sure that some plant 

 food is connected with it because there is no soil there; nothing to 

 catch and filter any of the plant food running out of that colored 

 water, but when you see colored water running away from a field, 

 it does not necessarily follow that plant food is being lost, because 

 if that colored water is running over soil, the chances are that the 

 soil has taken out the larger part of the plant food. 



MR. GLOVER: Can the fertility of a farm be maintained without 

 the aid of commercial fertilizers by feeding the hay, clover and 

 timothy and fodder on the farm and converting all the straw to 



