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predate the bulletins, but I don't think our neighbors know of 

 them. The one thing we ought to do is to interest the people 

 of the state of Minnesota in the use of the information they 

 contain, so they will be calling for them, and the information 

 they contain will go out over the entire state. 



Mrs. Jennie Stager: I send mine around. I lend it to fifteen 

 or twenty farmers. One man raised two thousand bushels of 

 potatoes, and he tried the preparation of corrosive sublimate 

 as recommended in one of the bulletins by Prof. Green, and he 

 said it was the best thing he had ever tried on his potatoes. I 

 do not know but what others who get the bulletin do the same 

 thing. 



Mrs. A. A. Kennedy: You might just as well ask the com- 

 mon farmers to read Shakespeare as to read those bulletins. 



Mr. J. S. Harris: If a man's name once goes on that mailing 

 list it stays there, and a good way is to send in the names of your 

 neighbors to be placed on the mailing list. 



Mr. J, W. Murray : There is not one farmer in ten that knows 

 there is such a thing as these bulletins. If a person wishes 

 these bulletins, will they be sent to him continually? 



Prof. Green: If a person desires a certain bulletin and ap- 

 plies for it, that bulletin will be sent him, but if he desires 

 his name placed on the mailing list, every bulletin that is 

 published will be sent. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: If every member would put on a postal 

 card from ten to twenty names of their neighbors who would 

 read those bulletins and would send them to Prof. Green, they 

 would all be placed on the regular mailing list. Put their 

 names on a card with the P. O. address and mail it to Prof. 

 Green or to some one connected with the station, and tliey 

 will all receive the bulletins. 



Prof. Green: They are not published at regular inters .ils, 

 but there are seven or eight bulletins published every year. 

 We publish now about 5,000 bulletins. 



Mr. Harris: I do not think that half of the farmers in the 

 state know there is an experiment station (Laughter). I 

 know there are men in our county who are getting the bul- 

 letins and do not know there is an experiment station. I 

 would suggest that we send out one copy to every man in the 

 state of Minnesota. Most of them know nothing about it. 

 They cannot find out what the experiment station is or where 

 it is, unless fve take some extra pains to let them know. 



Mr. G. J. Kellogg, (Wisconsin): When the bulletins are 



