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tests of leading crops, cotton and corn being the chief ones. The second series was 
very much reduced in numbers, seven stations being carried forward in different 
sections of the State — in the east-central portion, the Piedmont section, and in the 
mountains. These stations were conducted hy men of intelligence, who took great 
pains Avith the work. They spent a great deal of time, and for the season of 1891 
we paid them $20 for their time and the use of the land, they of course keeping the 
crop. We recognized the necessity for moving these stations round and not keeping 
them in the same section if we would carry them forward for any considerable time. 
Men conducting experiments of this hind get tired after a while and the interest 
docs not continue so much as during the first season. The first season there was 
quite a considerable interest manifested by the people in the neighborhood, but 
they rather tired of it. The difficulty of securing in their places trustworthy assist- 
ance without the close supervision which it needed caused us to give up the work. 
It requires a great deal of painstaking care, and with the distances we have and the 
expense of traveling we did not feel that we got results of sufficient value to war- 
rant us in carrying on the work. As I said to the section this afternoon, we 
attempted then to meet the farmers' alliances. We got into correspondence with a 
considerable number of the alliances and an agricultural committee was appointed 
to receive our circulars and to delegate one of their members or some member of the 
alliance to conduct experiments. In this way we got a considerable number of 
experiments on new crops and soil tests started in different parts of the State. 
Some we carried through were quite successful, though the percentage we received 
reports from was so small we did not consider the results worth publishing. The 
interest of the alliances dwindled out apparently as their interest in politics devel- 
oped. Perhaps if we had been in a position to visit these alliances occasionally 
during the season we might have held their interest, but that was impossible. 
Later we have distributed seeds of desirable varieties of plants and have followed 
these up at the end of the season with a series of questions in circular form, and by 
that means we have got a considerable number of favorable replies as to the growth 
of crimson clover. We have no doubt that we shall get a considerable number of 
farmers to growing crimson clover as a result of that, but so far as substation work 
is concerned we do not think the results obtained are worth the time that has been 
expended on them, though as a matter of education it is probable that enough has 
been done on the whole to warrant the work having been undertaken and carried 
forward. 
Mr. Mills spoke of very successful cooperation with farmers iu the 
Province of Ontario. His experimenters were largely ex-pupils of the 
Ontario College. 
The Section on Agriculture and Chemistry here took the floor with 
a discussion on tuberculosis. 
Ou motion it was resolved to strictly enforce the five-minute rule, and 
to recognize no speaker a second time until all who desired had spoken. 
Mr. Henry. In order that we may understand each other upon a 
subject which is crowding upon some of us and in which all are inter- 
ested, I would like to get a few statistical data. I would ask all colleges 
and stations represented here how many stations have directly used 
the tuberculin test? Seventeen responded. 
Now, how many have used it on the station herd and found the herd 
infected? Twelve. 
How many have used it on the station herd and found no infection 
in the nerd? One responded (Storrs College). 
