ANNUAL MEETING OHIO STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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I took up the Experiment Station work in 1904 with the feeling that 

 perhaps my experience had been unique, and with the hope that with the 

 opportunity to observe through cooperative experiments and field investi- 

 gations I would somehow be able to clear up the matter, for at no time then 

 or since has there ever been the slightest question in my mind as to the 

 accuracy of the work of the Experiment Station. 



FIG. 2. 



EXPERIMENTS IN COOPERATION WITH FARMERS. 



While as just stated, we always announced that negative results in con- 

 nection with cooperative experiments were just as valuable to us as positive 

 results, as indeed they were, I must say, however, that the large number of 

 negative results secured was indeed much of a surprise and soon became a 

 little wearing on the nerves. In nearly every case we received a few reports 

 of remarkably positive results from our experiments, showing that they had 



