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three or four rears on this matter and he has I'callv found some 

 tilings of very great value, and ! deepl_y regret that he cannot be 

 here to answer such C|uestious himself. 



Dr. Birge: Have you tried it yourself? 



Mr. Stranahan: Yes, l)ut our niyrio})hylluni does not thrive. 

 Our soil and water is not conducive to any kind of vegetable 

 growth. 



Mr. F. X. Clark, Xorthville, :\Iich. : We frequently meet 

 this same difficulty at our meetings, the author of the paper not 

 being present and these questions coming up that no one can 

 answer. I think it wouhl h^ well if the Secretary would note 

 those points and ask the author of this paper to present some- 

 thing on that line and perhaps others, as an addition to his 

 pa])er by way of discussion. 



1>)'. Birge: Why not have him answer any of these ques- 

 tions and have them printed. 



Mr. Clark: That woitld be well, hut we always have papers 

 Avhere the authors are not present and most always questions 

 come up that no one can answer. 



The President : Dr. Pond might add his answers to these 

 questions as a part of the discussion. I l)elieve that is prac- 

 ticable. 



Mr. Titcomb : I suggest that Air. Stranahan relate the re- 

 sults of his experiments under his peculiar conditions. 



Mr. Stranahan: We have nutde a good many experiments; 

 we have tried all sorts of fertilizers, we have tried a compost 

 made with cotton seed meal and with barnyard manure; and we 

 have succeeded in making our myriophyllum and other ])lants 

 grow well the first year, but they almost always die out and be- 

 come absent the second year. 



Dr. Birge: Even if you continue the juanuring? 



Mr. Stranahan: We have not continued it, because it is im- 

 possible to do it in a pond full of fish. We have also had con- 

 siderable correspondence with rice planters along the coast, and 

 find that they have never found a fertilizer which is practicable 

 for rice which is to be flooded, which is discouraging, because 

 vegetation is of very great importance as shown by the success 

 had 1)y Deary at San Marcos. But there the soil was very rich 

 and black: the myriophyllum growing from the bottom of the 



