Minutes of the sections - 67 



Section on college work and administration. 67 



Culture studies in land-grant colleges 67 



The field and functions of the land-grant colleges 67 



Relative amounts of pure and applied science in the land-grant 



colleges . 71 



Courses in agriculture, horticulture, and allied subjects 77 



Horticulture 77 



Other features of the course - 83 



A course in horticulture 84 



Comparison of horticulture courses in different institutions-.. 85 



A standard agricultural course 87 



Election t)f members of executive committee and officers of the 



sections 89 



What is a liberal and practical education for an engineer? 90 



A degree course in home economics 92 



What ought a degree course in home economics to include? . . 96 



To what extent should the degrees in land-grant colleges be 



severely technical and scientific? f 99 



Address of Hon. William T. Harris 103 



Discipline — student control 106 



The land-grant colleges and normal schools 117 



The relations of the land-grant colleges to the State universities. -. 119 



The land-grant colleges and the public schools 124 



The ' ' open door ' ' for the land-grant college — the farmers 126 



Section on experiment station work . 133 



Report of committee on agricultural federation . . - 133 



Soil ferlility in relation to permanent agricultiire 134 



Unification of terms used in chemical analysis 148 



Report of committee on methods for the testing of cereals 149 



Some results of an old method for determining available plant food 



in soils 151 



Soil investigation 156 



Officers of the section ^. 170 



Demonstration work by the experiment stations 170 



Index of names --- 187 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Diagram I. Seven-year average total produce of corn, oats, and wheat 158 



II. Three-year average yield of clover hay 159 



