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Conclusion. 



My pa])er has taken up more of your time tliaii I had thought it 

 would ; but, even so, I have only given you the skeleton outlines of 

 what the Chemical Branch has attempted Mathin the last two years. 

 The importance of the facts I have brought before you, has not, I feel 

 sure, escaped you. Their full significance will, perhaps, only gradu- 

 ally work itself into your niinds. Your welfare and the prosperity of 

 the counti'>' genei'ally are bound up with such investigations ; and, 

 wherever else the priming knife may be applied, on the score of neces- 

 sary economies, I hope that you, as a body, will resist tooth and nail 

 all attempts to cripple any branch of our Agricultural Service, and 

 that you will insist that the great movement that has been made for 

 the solution of your agricultural problems shall still continue a 

 forward movement. 



