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patented their process, because I am satisfied that the gelatine 

 is much better. Our men pay $1A0 an acre for culture. We 

 buy through our farm bureau. We have one of the farmers act 

 as buying agent. 



INIr. C. H. White. I would like to say that the Worcester 

 County Farm Bureau is just starting — it is only two days 

 old, but we are here for business, and I hope that you men in 

 Worcester County, who hope to get lime this year, will confer 

 with the Farm Bureau. 



Professor Cromwell. I want to make a comment on that, 

 because that is the greatest movement you have. There are 

 too many of you folks to write to the State college and the 

 United States government and have much attention paid to it. 

 Now you have a specialist between you and the State college 

 and the United States government. Now you have a man who 

 is salaried and who represents you, and the scientific knowledge 

 at Washington and at the State college is to be put to work on 

 your problems absolutely free. And it seems to me that there 

 is no institution that can do more to help you. You men 

 don't know what your neighbors are doing in the adjoining 

 townships, and there is not a move you can make that will 

 help you in the alfalfa business more than to have a man who 

 can gather all the experiences together, both failures and 

 successes. This man's business is to find what is good lime 

 and what is not, to find what diseases you have and what you 

 do not have. He can ask the State college in an authoritative 

 way, and can ask Washington, so that Washington will put the 

 brainiest men they have on your problems. A farm bureau is 

 a vital problem in solving the questions in your county. 



Question. I have been told that there was no seed grown 

 in the United States except in Utah. Is that correct? 



Professor Cromwell. I believe that the seed men are just 

 as honest on the average as we are, but they are wretchedly 

 careless about alfalfa. That statement is not true. There is 

 lots of seed grown in Kansas, and there is lots of seed grown in 

 Nebraska. Those States are south of you, and that seed will 

 winterkill if brought to Massachusetts, but there is plenty of 

 alfalfa seed grown north of this State, and standing winters 

 harder than yours. We must give our seedmen to understand 



