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Now, as to the suggestions I have to offer, if I may: One 

 is that, first of all, you establish an office similar to the one we 

 have established. I might say that Michigan, Minnesota and 

 Washington are establishing offices along the same line. There 

 surely are in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the other states 

 devices and information such as we have here, that will help 

 your mien, help your people in just the ratio they have helped 

 ours. The first thing that ought to be done is to form a clear- 

 ing house, where this information can be gathered together, and, 

 if good, passed on. The second — and I might say that this can Suggests Cen- 

 best be established with your various Departments of Agriculture '^''' 'j^fo^'inti- 

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and with your colleges, because the colleges are able to get more fj^^gg *„^ 



from the manufacturer by way of co-operation than almost any South 

 other single agency — the second would be to use your influence 

 to provide proper funds for this work to be carried on. Next, 

 start in with the collective demonstration, showing what is good 

 and bad practice. You will know, then, what you will want to 

 do with the investigations end. Try to co-operate, in all ways, 

 with the banks, the railroads, the manufacturers of dynamite and 

 the stump puller people. In that way you will get so many 

 people together that the movement will be given so much mo- 

 mentum that nothing will stop it. 



M'ay I say just one word further? This is a little emergency 

 poster No. 1 (indicating) that was published by the Wisconsin 

 College of Agriculture, as a result of the demand for more food. 

 We have begun to get results from this already ; and I have one 

 or two copies here in case anyone would like to see them. I also 

 have one or two extra copies of our land-clearing poster. We 

 have published a report of our land-clearing demonstration 

 which we will be glad to send to any who care to have it; and 

 we have in the press a land-clearing bulletin which is composed 

 mainly of pictures. We feel that if we can depict land-clearing 

 conditions and methods by pictures, that others can read the pic- 

 tures whether they can read the English language or not. I 

 thank you. (Applause.) 



