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Officers and committees of the assoc-iation -- '7 



List of delegates and \nsitors in attendance -.-- 9 



Constitution of the association - H 



Minutes of the general session 1-^ 



Address by Hon. James Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture 15 



Report of the executive committee 16 



Report of treasurer - - ^0 



Report of the bibliographer - -0 



Uniform fertilizer and feeding stuff legislation 27 



Report of committee on methods of seed testing - 27 



Forestry in land-grant institutions 27, 53 



Instructions to executive committee regarding Congressional legisla- 

 tion ;----- 28.42 



Resolution regarding a department of agricultural education in the 



National Educational Association 2S, 47 



Statistical work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 29. 49 



Petition of Association of Mining Schools regarding indorsement of 



Mondell bill 29 



Annual address of the president of the association 29 



Report of committee on methods of teaching agriculture 37 



Report of the committee on graduate study -^9 



Report of committee on pure-food legislation 41 



Claims of experiment stations to the consideration of Congress 46 



Standing committees 46, 50. 66 



Address of Hon. William T. Harris. Commissioner of Education 48 



Report of committee on college and station exhibit at the St. Louis 



Exposition '*9 



Resolution regarding National Grange - - 50 



Resolution regarding Prof. W. O. Atwater 51 



Officers of sections and members of executive committee 51 



Animal and Plant Breeding— The American Breeders" Association 53 



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

 culture ' ■^~' 



Meeting place of next convention. ^^ 



Election of general officers •''" 



Work of the Office of Experiment Stations in agricultural education. . . 56 



Vote of thanks to Representatives Adams and Mondell 56 



Annual dues . . - - ^" 



Federal aid in control and extermination of the gypsy moth 57 



Memorial to President H. H. Goodell. ^"^ 



Report of committee on indexing agricultural literature 61 



Report of committee on rural engineering - 62 



Nutrition investigations - -- 64 



Miscellaneous resolutions "5 



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