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for the current year and future years. Boston, New York 

 and Philadelphia cannot differ much, and Mass., Conn, and 

 N. J. would probably be equally well served by a uniform 

 scale. What do you say to it? And when could we have a 

 meeting or exchange proposals so as to meet the spring trade ? 



(E. W. HILGARD, PROFESSOR OP AGRIC. CHEMISTRY IN THE 



UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA, AND DIRECTOR OP THE 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT BERKELEY, TO S. W. J.) 



Berkeley, March 10, 1882. 



My dear Sir, I have rec'd, and read with intense relish, 

 your Experiment Station Report for 1881. You have done a 

 wonderful amount of work with your $5000; but it makes 

 one almost have the mad-itch to think of this pittance allot- 

 ted to such work as this, when millions are wasted, and 

 worse than wasted, in merely bolstering up old and new politi- 

 cal hacks, every year. I am beginning to feel aggressive on 

 the subject, and have put some of that feeling into an article 

 that will shortly appear in the Atlantic. If something 

 of a breeze can be raised on that basis, by a concerted move- 

 ment on the part of the Agr. College and Exp't Station men 

 and their appreciators, we all may be enabled to work to some 

 advantage, instead of gnawing our lips in disgust. 



I have been forcibly struck with the contrast between the 

 line of work that is asked of you and that which comes to 

 me it is exceedingly characteristic of the respective stages 

 of agr. development in the two regions, and curiously illus- 

 trative of the wisdom of our worthy commissioner at Wash- 

 ington, when he proposes to send some one to Europe to find 

 out what lines of ex. work ought to be done in experiment 

 stations! Quousque tandem ? 



I hope Sturtevant will make good use of his opportunities 

 if he does what I expect of him, it will give a great lift to all 

 of us who are struggling to be enabled to do something! 



