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potatoes, corn and other things? Do you expect the papers 

 or anybody to raise these quotations twenty per cent ? It is 

 all folly. But your experiment stations, instead of adding 

 twenty per cent to the market value, raise the price one 

 hundred per cent. Think of it, gentlemen ! It is a con- 

 spiracy against the farmers. It takes only three to make a 

 conspiracy, and there are five of these stations in it. 



Gentlemen, you may think w hat I say is extravagant, but 

 if you will call upon me I will substantiate what I have said 

 by proof that you cannot doubt. 



The fertilizer manufacturers are in the market to sell their 

 fertilizers. The values are raised for them one hundred 

 per cent. They are not satisfied. They want a trust. They 

 are not satisfied with the one hundred per cent that the ex- 

 periment stations add for them. They add in addition all 

 the way from thirty-seven and a half per cent in New Jersey 

 to fifty per cent in New York. Then, where does the farmer 

 stand? If anybody doubts my word, I wish them to raise a 

 question. 



Professor Brooks. 1 understand there is an opportunity 

 for questions. What value is it that the experiment stations 

 start and then raise twenty per cent ? 



Mr. Ward. If you will let that question go for a few 

 moments, I have a list of ten questions that I want to pro- 

 pound to you. 



Our friend from Rhode Island stated some time ago that tlie 

 stations have called the attention of the farmer to the fact 

 that the only absolutely safe way in general to buy fertilizers 

 with a surety of the quality of the materials they are buying 

 is to buy the individual ingredients and mix their own goods. 

 Now, that is all true. When the experiment stations give 

 analyses to the dealers in fertilizers, the farmers give full 

 faith and credit to them. But we are told by the essayist 

 that when they give the analyses of the nitrogen in the fer- 

 tilizers, it may be worth fourteen cents or it may be worth 

 three cents ; they cannot tell, but they assume — people do 

 not assume when they know — they assume it is of the high- 

 est quality. 



The Connecticut station says : "These valuations, it must 

 be remembered, are based on the assumption that the nitro- 



