478 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VII 



our time is very limited here, as I have already stated to you. 

 We are obliged to give possession of this room at a certain time, 

 and I think we will have to close the discussion at this time. 



A Member : Might I ask if the information that they are try- 

 ing to get from Professor Curtiss is not published in bulletins 

 that could be obtained from the experiment station? 



Dean Curtiss: Yes, we have that all in the form of bulletins 

 and circulars. We will probably put out an additional circular 

 giving information about the different varieties of soy beans 

 prior to the time for planting in the spring. 



A Member : We can not secure any ground limestone. I 

 would like to ask Dean Curtiss the address of any firm that puts 

 it out in that shape. 



Dean Curtiss : There are a number of places in the state 

 where you can buy ground limestone. We have bought it at 

 the rate of $1.25 a ton, or $1.50 a ton when applied to land, 

 some of our land that is acid. The closest place that I know of 

 here is the Iowa Falls Limestone Company. In the eastern part 

 of the state there is a region in Scott county about Buffalo where 

 you can get it. There are probably half a dozen places at least 

 where you can get it, regions where we have limestone, where 

 they are grinding it. It is a by-product of the limestone mills. 

 You can usually get it very cheap. 



The President : Now we will close this discussion at this time. 

 The next number on our program, as you will know by the printed 

 program, is a young chap that we brought out here from Chicago, 

 and we brought him from New York to Chicago. We have 

 transported him around over the country quite a little. He 

 worked for Uncle Sam for some four or five years, in the Bureau 

 of Markets and in the administration of the stockyards during 

 the war, and for a while he was with one of the largest commis- 

 sion companies in Chicago after he resigned his position with the 

 Bureau of Markets. And then the Farm Bureau got hold of 

 him and toted him around a while, and last spring when we were 

 looking for a manager to put in charge of the Chicago Producers' 

 Commission Association, we went over into Ohio and made a 

 little search there to see if we could locate the young fellow, and 

 finally we ran onto him over there connected with the live stock 

 department of the Ohio Farm Bureau. So we brought him forth 

 and set him down in Chicago and put him in charge of the Chi 

 cago Producers' Commission Association. 



