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COMMUNICAIION FROM NATIONA.L ASSOCIATION OF SPATE UNIVERSITIFS. 



The chairman of tlie executivo committee read the following communication 

 from the National Association of State Universites: 



The National Association of State Universities in annual meeting assembled 

 sends fraternal greetings to the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 

 and Experiment Stations, and begs to express its friendly sentiment and its 

 cordial good wishes for a pleasant and profitable session, antl to venture the 

 hope that these two associations through their annual meetings may be greatly 

 instrumental in pr()mf)ting the cause of the highest and the higher liberal pro- 

 fessional and technical education in the United States. 



G. E. MacLean. President. 

 George E. Fellows. Secretary. 



Uniform Fertilizer and Feeding Stuff Legislation. , 



H. J. Wheeler, chairman, presented the following report of the committee on 

 this subject : 



In the course of the past year your committee, as heretofore, has been in cor- 

 respondence with parties in several States who were interested in the passage 

 of new fertilizer laws or in the amendment of existing ones. 



Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada. ^Montana. Wyoming, and Utah have not 

 yet felt the necessity of legislation in this line. In Colorado and Arkansas 

 recent attempts to pass such laws have been defeated. The following reports 

 have been received from some of the other States : 



Ex-Director Huston, of Indiana, reports that the existence of the recommenda- 

 tions of this association, was of nnicli assistance in connection with steps taken 

 to amend the old fertilizer law in that State. The law as enacted was made to 

 correspond to the reconnnendations in certain particulars, and the other points 

 were practically all left to the discretion of the executive officer, thus rendering 

 it possible to make rules in accordance with the recoumiendations. 



Professor Ladd. of North Dakota, reports that at the last session of the legis- 

 lature in that State a fertilizer law was enacted and that the bill was drawn 

 in accordance with the recommendations of this association, which, he says, were 

 very helpful in the preparation of the bill " and in securing the necessary legis- 

 lative action thereon." 



R. E. Rose. State chemist, Tallahas.see, Fla., writes that the law in that State 

 has recently been amended to conform, in so far as possible, with the recom- 

 mendations concerning uniformity. He adds that the recommendations were 

 of material service. 



Prof. F. B. Mumford. of INIissouri. reports that the law in that State has been 

 amended recently and that the reconnnendations were of " much assistance." 



President McBryde. of Virginia, reported. .July 4. 1903. that changes in the law 

 in that State were then being considered and that amendments in the line of 

 the recommendations were being urged. In conclusion he says : " It follows, 

 therefore, that your recommendations will be helpful in securing the legislation 

 needed." 



Director Armsby reports that the recently amended law of Pennsylvania con- 

 forms very largely in substance to the reconnnend.-itions. 



Director Soule. of Tennessee, states that a new law was passed in that State 

 in April. 1903. The law was drawn with the object of making it conform with 

 the recommendations of the associations, but a few amendments were made 

 not in harmony therewith which it is lielieved weakened the law. He adds 

 that it is hoped later to secure such amendments as will make the law conform 

 to the original draft, and that " had it not been for the existence of the recom- 

 mendations it would probably not have been iwssible to secure the passage of 

 the present law." 



Director J. F. Duggar, of Alabama, writes, under date of July 7. that in that 

 State " the old law has been replaced this year by a new one which embodies 

 the recoumiendations of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations and of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists," 

 and that " the recommendations alluded to have had much weight in securing: 

 the revision of legislation along this line." 



After careful consideration of the subject your committee submits the fol- 

 lowing recommendations regarding laws regulating the sale of feeding stuffs : 



