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The University of Nebraska,
Lincoln.

The Industrial College.

most important function of
[?] an officer. In fact
the record would be rather
an incidental function.

The collecting of data as to
our nation and introduced grasses
is a work which the Agricultural
Society might well take up
in this way. The work would
have to finally pass through the
hands of a botanist for the purpose
of securing accuracy, so
that it would be better to put
a botanist at it to begin with.
Of course it is to be understood that
jsuch botanist would have to take the testimony
of practical grass growers
[?[ over the state, so as to bring out
the practical side of the matter.
After a year or two of such investigation
a good manual might be