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Original in the Nebraska State Historical Society, Robert Furnas Collection

CHARLES E. BESSEY, PH.D.

OFFICE OF
THE STATE BOTANIST
TO THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

Lincoln, Neb. 1887

soil, or corn, or Sugar Beets it will be a good thing as turning attention to a new phase of the relations of Science and Agriculture in Nebraska.

By next year we shall have an eminent man here occupying the Chair of Agriculture, who will be able to introduce another topic still, in the shape of a discussion of the great questions which underlie breeding and reproduction. But in order to get him we must be willing to wait until he can