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far indexed nre Annales de la Science Agrnnoniiqno, 18S4-1903, Landwirth- 

 schaftliclie Jahrbiicher, 1872-1902, and Die Landwirthschaftlichen' Versuchssta- 

 tionen, 1859-1902. 



Any number of copies of each card can be purchased as desired. Arrange- 

 ments have lieen made with the Library of ("oiiL:re-'s f(jr tlie printing and sale'^of 

 these cards, but tlie indexini: and iiroof reading are done in the Library of the 

 Department. C'ircnhirs of information concerning this worlc were widely di.s- 

 tributod last ^larch to liliraries, institutions, and to individuals interested in 

 agriculture and related sciences. The result is a list of subscribers which war- 

 rants beginning the work, and it is hoi)ed that the list will be greatly iix-reased 

 after the cards wbic h are ready for distribution have lieen examined." 



The jtublication of the card index for Department publications has been con- 

 tinued during the past year, as usual, and now numbers 7,483 cards in each set. 

 libraries and institutions throughout the country continue to apply for the 

 cards, and frecpunt letters of aimreciation of their usefulness are received. 



The general index to the tirst 12 volumes of the Experiment Station Record 

 and Kxiieriment Station Bulletin No. 2 is a subject index which makes a volume 

 of G71 pages. 



" The index contains about 12o.000 entries, arranged under nearly 55,000 

 divisions and subheads. It covers all of the experiment station and Department 

 publications received for abstracting up to the beginning of .January, 1901, and 

 nearly all of the foreign literature u]) to that time It therefore brings the 

 index of this literature practically down to the close of the year 1900; and, as 

 it dates from the beginning of the experiment stations under the Hatch Act, it 

 covers a period of the greatest activity in the develoi)ment of agricultural 

 science." The preparation of this index involved a vast amount of painstaking 

 and tedious labor on the part of the editor of the Experiment Station Record 

 and his associates, and its successful completion is a vei\v considerable achieve- 

 ment. 



The importance of this great work to students, teachers, and investigators is 

 very great. The demand for it has already exhausted the first edition of 1,000 

 copies, and a second edition is being printed. 



The cai-d index of experiment station literature issued by the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations has now reached 25,600. 



A list of publications of the Agriculture Department 1862-1902 with analytical 

 index (pages 623) has been published by the Superintendent of Documents, 

 Government Printing Office. 



A. C. True. 

 J. A. Clark. 

 E. Davenport. 

 W. M. Hays. 



Mr. Hays. It is my private opinion, not a part of the committee's report, that 

 this association ought to take some active steps through its executive committee 

 to push matters both as to preparation of the cards and as to their publication 

 by the Library of Congress. 



The report of the committee was accepted. 



The convention adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock p. m. 



Evening Session, Tuesday. Xovemuer 1, 1004. 



The convention was called to order by J. C. Hardy, of Mississippi, the second 

 vice-president. 



President W. O. Thompson was introduced, and delivered the annual presi- 

 dential address, as follows : 



Annual Address of the President of the Association— Some Problems in 

 THE Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 



I. I propose for our consideration this evening a very plain and I trust a 

 very practical theme, upon which I desire to (»ffer a few remarks suggested by 

 my own experience and observation. No effort will be made to discuss in any 

 theoretical way the many interesting questions that pertain to education, but 



