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tion obtained to be printed at a moderate cost for the use of 

 Science Schools and District Museums. 



If from the careful consideration of the Telephone and the 

 Microphone, which you have this day seen in active operation at 

 Bradford Abbas, you can aid my friend Professor Buchman in 

 the task I have suggested, and by any means anticipate the 

 results of our experiments, some new and interesting results will 

 probably be placed at our immediate command. But failing 

 this helj) I see no course but to defer their consideration until 

 some one of your future meetings may give us the opportunity 

 of going into the subject in some fuller detail. I shall then, I 

 hope, be able to show that in the production of Corn and Root 

 crops we have the nutritive value of these crops largely under 

 control, and that it is within the power of the farmer not 

 only to encourage the growth of large crops, but at the same 

 time secure them in the highest conditions of excellence, suit- 

 able for the various uses for which they may be req[mred. 



