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we have for taming and fertilizing the soil, for furnishing winter 

 grazing and for restoring the fertility to exhausted soil. It is 

 undbubtedly the pioneer crop for our cut-over lands. (Ap- 



, , ^. ,T , • r , 11 1 • r ^^st Beans 



Mr. Thompson: What variety of bean would you advise for . ^ ^^^ ^.^ 



Texas ? Texas 



Mr. Tracy: How many months have you without frost? 

 Mr. Thompson : We don't have frost before the latter part 



of November, until the last days in March. 



Mr. Tracy: I would use the Chinese or the Osceola. The 



Osceola is a little later than the Chinese — a week or two. 



Need of Experiment Station 

 Work on Cut-Over Lands 



By W. R. Dodson 



Dean of the State College, Director of the Experi- 

 ment Stations of the State of Louisiana 



I think the miscellaneous discussion indulged in after Mr. 

 Piper's address justifies me in the assertion that we have en- 

 tirely inadequate information as to what can be done on these 

 lands in a definite, specific way to tell the average inquirer 

 what he might expect us to know. I don't know but one way 

 to get that information, and that is to get the experiment sta- 

 tions to do these things over a series of years to get the aver- 

 age conditions and make the average deduction from it. 



I was just thinking, when we were talking about this ques- 

 tion, suppose they had been in the very definite form of ques- 

 tions, and we had said to some of these gentlemen : How many 

 tons of velvet beans can you expect to gain, as an average, on 



the long leaf yellow pine cut-over lands? How much cow pea Exact Knowl- 



edae \\hat Is 

 hay can you expect? How many tons of beef can you make on r^^n.'n^ 



:in acre of land an average year, and how much will it cost you? 

 How many pounds of pork can you make on an average acre of 

 land on an average season in the general type of long leaf and 

 short leaf yellow pine region? And I don't believe you could an- 

 swer those questions, because you don't know. The only way 1 



