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College. For the afternoon, they have provided a lecture by- 

 Mr. William C. Strong, upon "Winter-Gardening and Glass 

 Structures," — a very important subject, — and a discussion 

 upon Market-Gardening is to follow, including a paper on 

 Root Crops, by Mr. O. B. Had wen, of Worcester. It will 

 be manifest to the meeting, that the committee have laid out 

 work enough ; so much work, that it must be divided properly 

 and fairly, and there must be some limit put to the discussion 

 of each one of these questions. Now, we have occupied on 

 this matter, already an hour and three-quarters of the morn- 

 ing session, and the Board will see that it is utterly impossible 

 to exhaust any question here. That cannot be done, never 

 was done, and never will be, in any meeting of Yankee 

 farmers, as far as I know; not even the "fodder-corn" ques- 

 tion. I would suggest, therefore, to the meeting, that the 

 Chairman be authorized to divide the session, during the 

 remainder of the day, fairly, in order to give every gentleman 

 who has come here to speak, an opportunity. 



Col. Stone. We expect the Chairman to do that. 



The Chairman. Then the Chair will declare that the dis- 

 cussion on the Charleston phosphates is closed. 



REPORT OF PROFESSOR STOCKBRIDGE. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Board of Agri- 

 culture: — I am now present to discharge a duty which has 

 been assigned me in your order of exercises, by reporting 

 upon the experiments with fertilizers that have been conducted 

 at the Agricultural College ; yet I am under the necessity of 

 saying that I cannot, in respect to those experiments, report 

 to you a completed work ; and in the fragment of time that 

 is now left to me, I can only report a moiety of that partial 

 work; for the experiments at the College with fertilizers, 

 although they have been in operation for six years, are only 

 fairly inaugurated. As we have put the questions to nature 

 by our experiments, and received our answers, those answers 

 have compelled us to put many other questions, and so the 

 work broadens and leads us on, I do not know but indefinitely. 



Now, gentlemen, if you will permit me, before commencing 

 a detailed statement of the experiments at the College, I will 



