We have seriously discussed the possibility of doing
     such an inventory state wide here.  Our thoughts have
     been along the lines of inventorying, for instance, all
     the tractors in museum collections so that the 160 plus
     museums in this state don't all collect the same model
     of the same brand of tractor, and ignore the other
     models, years and brands which ought to be preserved
     somewhere.  The same principle could be applied to many
     other types of artifacts.  Why do you ask?

     Chris Dill

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