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manures which they want tested. They want different kinds 

 of fodder tested. They may be sent to the experiment 

 station, and we will do all we can to test their value, 

 and make suggestions in regard to their value and the 

 best method of using them. That is the third point. Then, 

 over and above that, there is a whole line of experiments 

 that have been begun, and others that have been simply sug- 

 gested, that will be taken up by the experiment station and 

 carried on year after year by men thoroughly trained to 

 that work ; men who, having turned aside from other pur- 

 suits, make that their business ; men who are responsible to 

 the board of control ; men who are responsible to the peo- 

 ple of the State ; and as soon as they reach any results, they 

 are to give them to the papers, and they are to send them 

 out in the reports, so that the farmers can have them in the 

 most available form ; and if they do not come to j^ou in the 

 form of tables or statements that you can perfectly under- 

 stand, then it is your business, and I hope you will do it, to 

 send them back to the experiment station, and let them try 

 another experiment in that direction, and see if they cannot 

 make themselves understood. 



Now I am ready to answer any other question, or will 

 try to. 



Mr. Searle of Park Hill. I have a question in mind 

 which I would like very much to hear answered, which may 

 be a little one side of the point in view at the present time, 

 but I think it is in close connection with it. The time has 

 come when we in New England are driven to the wall in 

 regard to the matter of fertilizing our soil. It has become 

 depleted. Where have our young men been driven to ? They 

 have been driven from New England to more propitious 

 fields, unavoidably. If we would keep the young men ot 

 New England from emigrating to the West, the first thing is 

 to show them how we can fertilize our soil. The question is, 

 In what fertilizer can we find this boon? In what fertilizer 

 can we receive dollar for dollar? I have discarded all ferti- 

 lizers, from the fact that they cost more than they are worth, 

 except wood ashes. I can buy wood ashes and make a mar- 

 gin of profit. But we cannot get the quantity of wood ashei 



