CONTENTS 



Pag-e. 



Officers and committees of the association - - - 7 



List of delegates and visitors in attendance — 9 



Constitiition of the association 11 



Minutes of the general session 15 



Resolution relating to Association of State Universities 15 



Report of the executive committee . - - 15 



Report of treasurer 19 



Report of bibliographer 20 



Collective college and station exhibit at St. Louis 25 



Communication from National Association of State Universities. 28 



Uniform fertilizer and feeding stuff legislation 28 



Methods of seed testing - 31 



Military instruction'^ _ - 31,63,69 



Indexing agricultural Mterature 32 



Annu;il address of the president of the association . 33 



Death of Major Alvord 42 



Adams bill and Mondell mining school bill 43 



Standing committees 43 



Methods of teaching agriculture— The teaching of agriculture in the 



rural schools - - 43 



The social phase of agricultural education 56 



Cooperation between the stations and the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture r - 62 



Graduate study - - 63 



Resolution regarding Hon. H. C. Adams 64 



Extension of franking jjrivilege 64 



Resolution regarding Hon. F. W. Mondell - 64 



Resolution regarding Maj. Henry E. Alvord 65 



Election of officers 65 



Meeting place of next convention 66 



Rural engineering - - - 66 



Animal and plant breeding— American Breeders' Association 68 



The upbuilding of agriculture - - 69 



Indexing agricultural literature -- 76 



Resolution regarding Director True and the Office of Experiment Sta- 



tions .- -- " 



Resolutions of thanks - ' ' 



Minutes of the sections - ^^ 



Section on college work and administration. 79 



Elementary instruction in land-grant colleges - - - 79 



Military instruction ^^ 



Degrees in land-grant colleges 161 



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