Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 349]

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341 The Chairman—What is the cause ? Mr. Parker—The rain fall is sudden. The rain does not come down in showers, but comes down in water spouts, frequently. Mr. Flagg—You have to do your level best in that country. Mr. Parker—Yes, sir. You have to do your level best. The Chairman—There are one or two topfcs I suppose we must consider a little. Mr. Flagg—Mr. Chairman, I want to make one suggestion in reference to this matter of the succession of crops, planting one crop after another. It is this : Plant your crop one year, this year say, in strips, corn first, oats next, wheat in the next, and grass in the last. Then next year turn around and plant across these the same crops. In that way you would have every crop in succession to every other that has been planted; corn after corn, corn after oats, corn after wheat, and corn after grass. It is an easy way of trying the experiment of succession, and is suggested by an experimenter at Munich.

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The Chairman—I find myself under some difficulty. If I may be allowed to interrupt the discussion, for I fear that we may at last get in a hurry and adjourn without having time to think of it. I say I find myself (if it is expected that I act as chairman of the executive committee, made so by the officers of the society,) under some difficulty and embarrassment to meet the other members of the committee, to compare with them upon some of the points that would necessarily come before the committee, if they provide for future meetings. It seems to me a little desirable to secure some understanding with members of the Convention before they all disperse, where and when shall the next meeting be held, if a meeting is called. I will say that it has been suggested as a thing desirable that the meeting of the Convention, if it continues to hold something of the character that it now seems to have, shall be held at the seat of the several institutions in turn ; that we give the gentlemen, as they come together at the Convention, an opportunity to make a personal inspection of one of these institutions, of its experimental fields and general condition. Mr. Miles—It seems to me, if we are to continue the meetings, it would be very desirable to meet at the different colleges, and we could look over the different methods. Mr. Flagg—There is another suggestion, and that is that we secure more quiet, uninterrupted work, perhaps, at the institutions themselves than we can in any city.