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Station makes it their business. They have a man who is 

 trained to look for the different things which must be taken 

 into consideration in the breeding of varieties. It seems to us 

 that we should select our seed and tliat the Experiment Station 

 and other scientific people should breed the seed. One of the 

 things which this association should do, in the opinion of 

 your secretary, to make its greatest development, would be 

 to enlarge, increase and develop the seed certification plan, 

 because that, it seems to me, can be spread almost indefinitely, 

 to include all varieties of seed which we grow here in the state, 

 and make a guaranty which means something. 



I heartily thank everybody who has helped me in the past 

 year to perform in my poor way the duties of secretary of this 

 association. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. R. Leland, 



Secretary. 



Voted, That the report of the Secretary be accepted. 



On motion of W. G. Hunton, voted that a committee on reso- 

 lutions be appointed by the Chair, consisting of three members, 

 to report at the meeting to be held Dec. loth. This committee 

 was appointed as follows : Dr. Raymond Pearl, A. E. Hodges, 

 C. A. Day. 



On motion of Mr. Leland, voted that a legislative committee 

 be appointed by the chair, to place the necessary matters before 

 the legislature. 



Mr. Adams : This is a very important committee and it is 

 very necessary to get members on that committee who can attend 

 to it, and for that reason I think it would be well to give our 

 chairman until the next meeting to appoint that committee. 

 Then he can get in consultation with members and find out 

 whether they can serve or not. 



The matter was laid on the table until the next meeting. 



Dr. Woods: I want to say a word in relation to putting 

 into the law a requirement in regard to the germination test. 

 Some of the western states have put that in, in my judgment 

 very unwisely. The trouble is that no uniform methods of 

 germination have been worked out. If you send exactly the 

 same seed to the Maine Experiment Station, to Washington and 



