read as fbllows: of eflbectually aiding in the solution or praetical questions as they arise no such Whereas agriculture lies at the very fotndation of our national prosperity. measures would have had the least ehance of aceeptance by the several legisla. and is justly entitled to an ample share of the fostering care of the General GoV- tive bodies. It is not. however. merely as a matter of good faith with Legislaernument. and tures and taxpayers that such a course is advisable and necessary. Whereas in the opinion of this body it is of the highest importance that ac- contend. and am most thoroughly satisfied from a somewhat protracted cxcurate and reliable information concerning the agricultural features and pecu- pericnee in such work. that in no other way ean we obtain such fruitful subjects liarities of the country. and particularly of the newer States andTerritories yet of investigation in the domain of agricultural science or be so sure that what to be settled. should be within thereach of the intending settlerand immigrant. we hold to be true does not need a host of corrollaries and provisos in order to and render it applicable to all cases. It is the endless multiplicity and variety of Whereas tie law creating tile Geological Survey of the public domain of the the )roblems presented for solution by the practical farmer that serves as the "United States provides for "the classification of the public lands and exami- touchstone of our theories. and by continual attrition. now at this ooint. now at nation of the geological structure. mineral resources. and mineral products of another. lodifics our conceptions into a shape in which we may feel sure of the national domaii." but in the actual execution of the work the first provision their correctness. hasthus far reihaied a deadletter. so far s any of the information needed by In tlhepresenceofthemultitudeofsuggestionsand "live"problemsthusconagriculturists is concerned. while the most elaborate and minute investigation tinually presented to us in the newlysettled regions. tie laborious search for of even the most recondite matters relating to the geological structure and min- proper subjects for investigation. that sometimes troubles our colleagues in the cral resources has received abundant attention: Therefore be it Old World. becrmes aim unknown quantity. tle only danger being that the Resolved. That the State Grange earnestly prays the honorable the Senate and pressure of details may be so great as to drown to a certain extent the proper fHouse of Representatives that steps be taken and provision made to the end pursuit of a subject until it shall have been evolved into a definite form or propthat the Geological Survey shall discharge the first duty intrusted to it by law. osition.
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