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253 ments; but tables are constructed for the correction of these errors, after observation and trial, and results are reached which are practical ly accurate. Prof. Swallow—There is this thing to be considered, that the experiments are to some extent limited to particular sections of the country. For instance, we want experiments in cotton; but you have to limit them. That will give the idea. We must have general experiments, and then special. Mr. Flagg—I want to say a few words by way of preface to the offering of the following resolution. It is getting pretty well along in the day, and I suppose any conclusion that we may arrive at should come as speedily as may:

Resolved, That a committece of five be appointed to report to this meeting a set of experiments recommended for trial at the agricultural colleges in the various States, with detailed statements of the methods of performing them, so as to insure all possible uniformity of conditions at each point.

The discussion before the meeting this afternoon what would be the proper experiments to be tried in various agricultural colleges represented here, and the of performing them. We have heard at considerable Miles, and there has been considerable discussion as bility of doing it.

has been as to common by the proper method length from Dr. to the practica-

I should like to go back and consider to some extent the various subjects of experiments, which I think would properly come into the hands of the agricultural colleges of this country, and also consider to what extent we should take those up as a body, and endeavor to perform them in common with one another. I recognize the fact that there would be a large number of experiments which each class would have to try for itself—experiments which would be peculiar to their soil arid their climate. Of course we do not expect to try experiments in growing sugar cane in Illinois, but there are such general crops as corn and wheat affording abundant scope for investigation. Many of the cereals can be cultivated to a greater or less extent nearly all over the country, and uniformity of condition can almost be secured. The corn of Maine may be planted in Louisiana, and at the same mean monthly temperature as in Maine, and the conditions in that case, it seems to me, would be perhaps nearly uniform—as near as may be— with the exception of soil and climate. What I was going to say is this : there are a large class of observations and experiments that may be taken in hand by agricultural colleges. We have the meterological cbservations of the Smithsonian