92 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Haueen. Is that a concurrent resolution ? 
Mr. Wurrvey. It is a joint resolution. : 
Mr. Grarr. One county in my district was examined on the recom- 
mendation of the president of the State university in Illinois, and I 
am not able to meet the demands of the people for these slips. 
Mr. Burteson. Reprints? 
Mr. Grarr. These reprints; yes. sae 
The Cuarrman. Are the experiment stations doing any of this kind 
of work at all? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes; we are cooperating with the Illinois experi- 
ment station, with the New York experiment station, and with quite 
a number of the stations. 
The Cuarrman. I think in these tobacco States you could do a lot 
of work through those experiment stations at a very small expense 
and get it done a little more quickly, perhaps. 
Mr. Wurrney. Yes. The Secretary wished me to bring before the 
committee another matter in regard to the soil-survey men. I have 
not followed any particular order in this address, but I will bring it 
up here. There has been a great demand upon us for assistance in our 
colleges and experiment stations in the matter of teaching, and there 
has been so little work done along the lines that we have been follow- 
ing that it has been deemed by the Secretary necessary and advisable 
to let some of our men go. out and organize courses of instruction; and 
some time ago a very urgent request came from Cornell University. 
They were very anxious to organize a course of agricultural physics, 
soil physics, so that they could train their students for the lines of 
work we are developing. There was no one in the country they could 
get. They were not prepared to permanently take a man. They did 
not know how they were going to succeed; and so the Secretary 
detailed to them for the winter months Mr. Bonstile, one of our best 
trained experts, and he is at Cornell now organizing a course in soil 
ese along the lines of the work we have been following. It 
as been an exceedingly popular course. He had over seventy pupils, 
and then was compelled, by lack of space and because he could not 
give his attention to more, to close the list. They are having a very 
successful course in this soil work at Cornell. 
It was originally intended that Mr. Bonstile should be there for a 
short time to organize things, but the work of organizing a course and 
outlining instruction and the experimental work, and things of that 
kind, is going to require him to remain there for a year. Then it is 
the understanding that the college shall take care of it either by tak- 
ing Mr. Bonstile in accordance with the chairman’s suggestion, or by 
taking one of our younger men. 
The Cuatrman. I do not suggest taking your men away. I only 
eee that I do not think they will be lost to the country by their 
eaving. 
Mr. Wuirney. Then in order to. balance things the Secretary also 
acceded to a similar request from the University of Kentucky, and 
has sent Mr. Dorsey for a month to give a course of lectures, with 
the idea of helping them inaugurate a course of instruction in soil 
physics. The Secretary thinks it would be advantageous to the 
men themselves, as well as to the universities, to give the men of 
experience in the soil survey assignments for the winter months occa- 
sionally to some of the colleges, so that we can in time inject our 
