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association, or the representatives of such departments duly and 

 specifically accredited to this section." The other recommendations 

 of the committee were approved. 



The report of the committee on station organization and policy 

 was confined to a consideration of methods of dissemination of the 

 results of station investigations and dealt with the questions of im- 

 proving present means of publication and of securing a common 

 medium of publishing the results of station research work. In the 

 opinion of the committee, " every legitimate effort should be made 

 to aid the agricultural press in presenting the station work to the 

 people at large in a popular form. To this end, abstracts of bulle- 

 tins should be furnished to the press and also illustrative material 

 by way of cuts, charts, etc." The committee also advocated greater 

 attention to the organization of cooperative and demonstration work 

 and recommended that short normal courses be held at the colleges 

 or independent stations prior to the beginning of the farmers' insti- 

 tute season. 



The report expressed the opinion that the bulletins should be con- 

 fined to the results of research and a general description of the work, 

 should bear the date of publication, and should be paged continu- 

 ously throughout a given volume, each volume to have a table of con- 

 tents, title-page, and complete index, so printed that they can be easily 

 removed and placed in proper position Avithout cutting to single 

 pages. Electrotyping was advocated, to permit of reprints. 



All publications dealing with inspection work of whatever kind should be pub- 

 lished under a series known as official inspections. * * * The annual re- 

 port, if merely embracing the financial statements and a brief sunmiary of the 

 work of the year, should be issued as a bulletin. If it is of large size and is 

 made a repository of matter of permanent value, it should have its own table of 

 contents, title-page, and index. 



The committee strongly advocated the establishment of a journal 

 of agricultural research and outlined in considerable detail a plan 

 for the management and maintenance of such an organ. This plan 

 was indorsed by the association and the matter was placed in charge 

 of the executive committee, with authority to act. 



A report of the committee on affiliation of agricultural organiza- 

 tions was i^resented by H. J. Waters, chairman. The report favored 

 affiliation and indorsed the resolution of the Society for the Promo- 

 tion of Agricultural Science, inviting the affiliation of several agri- 

 cultural organizations and outlining a basis for such affiliation. The 

 proposed plan insures the full autonomy of the separate societies, but 

 provides for a representative council, affiliated meetings just preced- 

 ing those of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Jixperiment Stations, and an annual report by the council. 



