36 WILSON & TOOMER FERTILIZER COMPANY 



The agriculturist pays this in the main, for he uses 

 all fertilizer and the greater share of the feed. Yet 

 with all this surplus he is very modest in his demands 

 upon the State Funds. 



He needs to have his workers at the State Experiment 

 Station better paid, so that other States cannot take them 

 from us when they reach the point where they can be of 

 greatest service. He needs more funds to print matter 

 that has been compiled for his benefit, matter of untold 

 value to him that is lying in manuscript inactive upon the 

 shelves. He needs more workers, for there are problems 

 of immense economic value that are unconsidered for 

 lack of men. He needs more Farmers' Institutes, a 

 yearly demonstration train, support for the Horticul- 

 tural Society that is, and the Agricultural and Live Stock 

 Societies that ought to be. He needs the work of nur- 

 sery inspection enlarged and a horticultural law suiting 

 our conditions gradually built up and enforced. He 

 needs, oh, there is no use trying to tell all the ways 

 the grower could use his own money to advantage since 

 he is willing to let other folks use it for him. I am 

 no politician, but even I wonder at our energetic talk 

 about laws, the apathy we show in getting them enacted, 

 and the utter disregard we have of any provision for 

 enforcing them if they are passed. See, this trait is in 

 us all, but I am going back to fertilizers. 



