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hood there is probably some person who has 

 the ability and temper to enable him to collect 

 and collate such experience. A great many of 

 the questions that come to the agricultural con- 

 ventions and to the agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations could be better answered 

 at home if only the local experience were avail- 

 able for public use. In attending agricultural 

 conventions, I am always impressed with the 

 waste of effort in discussing questions of a 

 purely local character. In considerable editor- 

 ial experience, I have had the same feeling. It 

 is necessary to answer over and over again the 

 questions that have already been asked and 

 answered over and over again, until one almost 

 comes to feel that the work is not progressive. 

 I must not be understood as advising that 

 these questions be not asked or answered : I 

 only wish that we had the means of answering 

 them more definitely and in the place where 

 the answers would have significance. There 

 are different kinds of questions to be asked in 

 different kinds of conventions. 



Every agricultural society needs to empha- 



