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when we were on the steamer, and the strip of blue water was 

 getting wider and wider between us, and the beautiful and 

 interesting place where we had had so many unique ex- 

 periences, some of our friends bade us adieu in the beautiful 

 Arabic words, which imply a promise to return. 



The President. The convention will now stand adjourned 

 until Thursday morning at ten o'clock. 



THIRD DAY — MORNING SESSION. 



Thursday, December 20, 1906. 

 Music. 



Secretary Brown. Ladies and Gentlemen, I regret very 

 much to have to announce that the speaker of the morning, Mr. 

 F. E. Dawley, Fayetteville, N. Y., is too ill to appear. I regret 

 it both on Mr. Dawley's account and very much so on our ac- 

 count. Fortunately, however, the subject of agriculture, the 

 subject in which we are all interested, is so broad, that there is 

 never any lack of subjects to talk about, and fortunately for us 

 we are situated so near to one of our Experiment Stations that 

 we shall not lack for a speaker. I have secured the consent of 

 Dr. G. P. Clinton, who has been making some investigations 

 during the past year upon the subject of potato culture and the 

 potato blight, to occupy a few moments this morning in an ad- 

 dress upon that subject. Of course, it should be understood 

 that Dr. Clinton comes at a moment's notice and without special 

 preparation, but he is always prepared with something that is 

 worth hearing. 



Dr. Clinton. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 

 am sure that I regret more than anyone in the audience that 

 the speaker who was to be here is not able to appear. I think 

 that you will agree with me that most every man has his hobby. 

 I have mine, in fact, I have heard that it had been said of my 

 hobby, that I would rather stick my nose into a rotten potato 

 than to eat a good one. Now, if that is so, it is not because I 

 have not the power of smell, but because I see, or think I see 

 something in that potato, or back of that potato that is of in- 

 terest to me and to you. During the few years that I have 



