The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-09-01
MICHIGAN FARMER
ENTERS A PROTEST
Dissatisfied With Literature
From the Department
of Agriculture.
NOT WHAT HE ExPE
Termination Of the Spores Of Asarisus
campestris and Other Basisomy-
cetous Fungi" Too Heavy
for Him.
From the Washington stan.

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From the Washington Stan.
There is a farmer out in Michigan
whose views as to the value of the
agricultural department al a national
institution have been sadly changed. A
letter received at the department in
the past week contained O plaintfve
vail from The disillusioned soil tiller-
The Honorable Secretary Of AgricQl-
ture," he begins. Esteemed Sir. I
take my pen in hand to write you about
the agricultural department. l don't
suppose you want to hear from me, but
1 want you to read this communication.
AS / help to pay your salary you
ought to do it. 1 will be as short as /
can.
II nave been a farmer all my life,
n there amt any mortgage oger my
head. 1 amt generally regarded as a
kicker, I don't think the world owes
me a living and 1 sure am a hog for
work. Neither do 1 think I knew it all
and some time 6 when I heard you
had experts find out about everything
and send advice to farmers | thought
1t was fine. I asked my congressman
what I should do to get sons of this
free advice and he told me to write to
the publication division of the agrtcul-
"a AAeb $1,000 ~
| did so, saying / was a farther that
didn't know it all and that L las after
some bulletins to help me in my farm
ing.
Along about a week latet." con-
tinued the writer, "a package came for
me and I was rea tickled. ard after
me and Mirandy had finished supper
and the dishes was wiped 1 sets down
and opens h package, intending to
absorb some of that free information
right there OF the spot, having con-
cluded tina I'd been farming too long
in the old ignorant way. But I'll be
honswaddled If I wasn't surprised
when l picked IN the first bulletin to
see that it was called a preliminary
study Of the termination Of the spores
of agarieus campestris inc other
basisiomycetous fungi. Mr.. Secretary,
I'm plumb ignorant, but I never
tackled a L like that, and I amt
going to. l looked through the book,
but couldn't make head or tail of 1T,
80 I just laid it aside and picked up
another. That there first one, I says to
myself, slipped in by mistake.
When 1 opened that second bulletin
I'll be dodgasted If it wasn't more out
landish than the first. It was about the
formation of the spores III the sporan-
gia of rhizopus ~nigracans and of ply
comycers nitens. Without going too
illuch lInIo my leeilhss When l read mat
Iilltag ~ commune. Inc thlrd oulietln
! nicNed up was ABOUT lhe physiologl-
az fole % .1llHeral nutrients IN plants,
Millcn dldllI : mean a Whole lot 70 me;
lhe lour.h toid now 10 cultlVate the
aeialfai american rubber Tree, ana the
nun was aDout Wlther-tlp and other
diseases OF CIRCUS trees n fruits
caused py coiletotrlchun eioesperloides.
1ou can 2eileve me- MI: secretary,
Wen I ten you nat I amt going 70
pIanI any ruppef trees U mere IN
Mlcnisan ana that 4 don't give cuss
Mllelher us lhe eoileto1rlchuns gloes.
porlolues OF sometnlng else that don't
agree WIN curious trees, =
AMI got any.
Inc next one CT these valued docu-
menus Whlch met my eye, the farmer
Weht on 10 say, was ABOUT the perma-
ana OF zamia,
ana the next was about the North
Anaerlcan species OF spartlna- That
iast was real welcome, because Tc
ileard apout II BEFORE somewhere, but
othefW1se It wasn't valuable. ecaus ]
amt ever gong to plant 1T on my
arm.
was a NIUE DIT but