ANNUAL MEETING AT LEXINGTON. 305 



jlliary to the State Society, in all their adjoining or contiguous coun- 

 ties during the coming year and report their respective success at our 



aiext annual meeting. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Your committee to which were referred the report of the secre- 

 tary, submits the following recommendations, viz.: 



1. ^Ye deem the establishment of experiment stations in each 

 State and Territory as provided for in the bill now before Congress 

 -and known as the "Hatch Experiment Station Bill," a measure of the 

 utmost importance for the furtherence of exact experimental work, and 

 recommend that the society take appropriate action to further its adop- 

 tion. 



2. In the matter of the publication of our reports, your commit- 

 tee is unable to devise or recommend any plan further than that which 

 has been followed since the organization of the society. Our State 

 laws provide for annual reports only, and these are printed at the ex- 

 pense of the State. Should the society arrange for the publication of 

 quarterly reports as suggested by the secretary, the entire expense of 

 printing would have to be borne by the society, much additional labor 

 would be placed upon the secretary and the reports, when published, 

 would necessarily be so brief that they would not be so generally 

 sought after and so highly valued as are the reports in their present 

 form. 



As we have seen at the present meeting the leading papers of the 

 State have reporters present, who are ready and anxious to publish 

 immediately all the important papers presented at any meeting, and in 

 this way our best work is given to the public while still fresh and new^ 



3. Your committee recommends that all matters concerning the 

 legal statutes of the society, and the securing of a_ sufficient appro- 

 priation for the State Legislature be referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee, with full power to take such action as may seem best. 



H. E.— 20 



