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but for my information i would lil<e to know where that station is 

 located. Some good work has been done at Wisconsin, some at Ames 

 and some at Minnesota, good work may have been done at other places, 

 but I am telling you the truth as I know it when I say the best work 

 that has been done in the Union in experimental cattle feeding in the 

 last seven years has been done in this State and at the Experiment 

 Station. Now we are not done, we are not beginning to rest on our 

 laurels, but we have done very fine work, and I gather this from the 

 statements that are made to me by other stations and from the state- 

 ments which are made to me by large and very influential cattle feeders 

 in this State and also I gather this from this additional fact which I 

 will proceed to tell you of now. 



The United States government has, at Washington, a Department 

 of Animal Husbandry \vhich concerns itself with all questions of th-^ 

 feeding and breeding of live stock and a good many more besides. The 

 government at Washington is not able to do there all the work that 

 they want done and they go into what they call co-operative work with 

 a large number of stations over the country. For instance the govern- 

 ment is now co-operating wath us at Columbia on an irrigation experi- 

 ment. That may surprise you. It has cost the government a good 

 deal of money ; they furnish all the money for labor for constructing 

 reservoirs, etc.. and we do the irrigating and observe the results, write 

 the bulletins and the government publishes it as United States bulle- 

 tins on irrigation written in co-operation with the Columbia, Missouri 

 Experiment Station. 



The largest cattle feeding experiments that the United States gov- 

 ernment has ever undertaken in its history it has undertaken this fall, 

 and it has selected the Experiment Station at Columbia to conduct that 

 experiment. The government furnishes fifteen thousand dollars per 

 annum to pay the expense of these stations. We have to report to 

 them what we do and they send every year a special expert out to in- 

 spect our work and all the work of the experiment stations, and when 

 that man gets back to Washington, he has seen every experiment sta- 

 tion in the Federal Union. Moreover, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 visited us last June. He himself is an expert in cattle feeding, but he 

 was wonderfully impressed with what we had done and by the reports 

 of the Government Inspector, and by what he saw himself. They have 

 passed by Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and all the 

 other stations of the country and have begun at Columbia, at the ex- 

 pense of the United States government and in co-operation with our 

 station the largest experiment in cattle feeding that the United States 

 government has ever undertaken and also the largest ever undertaken 



