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some regards, but llie stations have not money enough to equip their staffs 

 sutticiently for them to attend to all the reiiuirements of their own people. The 

 stations have a great deal compared with what they had some years ago. They 

 have edneated men, they have organizatitms, they have buildings, they are in 

 touch with their people; but they have not got the wherewithal to do the work 

 that the people in the several localities want done, with a very few exceptions. 

 To that end I am preparing my rei)ort for Congress and I am earnestly lu'ging 

 upon Congress to give the stations more money to enable them to do their work. 

 If we could only get that body of honorable gentlemen to comprehend how nuich 

 good is coming to the American peoi)le from this research work, the undertaking 

 would be already accomplisiied. Our poultry interests in the United States 

 amount to over .^."iOO.dOO.OUO a year, and it is growing, and I hope to live to see 

 the day when the hen of the United States will pay all the expenses of the 

 American (Government. And when Congress meets all they will have to inciuire 

 into especially will be the price of eggs. I know of no investment that the 

 American people can make that will bring back as great returns to them as the 

 thorough (Miuipment of the experiment stations in every State and Territory in 

 the land. If you take the money that is given to the Department of Agriculture 

 and the money that is given by Congress to you and put it all together, it would 

 not build one battle ship. If they will just give us enough to build one battle 

 ship every year for a while we will show them what that hen will do. The ])eo- 

 ple want this work done, as I have learned. They want their stations provided 

 for in better shape than they are now. Some of the States are coming up ad- 

 mirably to the requirements of the stations and colleges, and helping them 

 along. Some are not. But Congress ann ; and when Congress appropriates 

 money it is only the people's money ; that is all it is. And it is only necessary 

 now that we should lay our heads together and look to Congress for this 

 assistance that is so much needed and work all together for it and I think it 

 will come. Congress visually tells us that they uuist economize: "It has come 

 to the time in the history of the United States when rigid, strict, economy must 

 be practiced." There is no economy I can think of so far-reaching as invest- 

 ments of money to help the American farmer to make the most of his acres and 

 of himself. 



Gentlemen, I thank you very much. I shall take occasion to drop in and 

 listen to your discussions, because I feel at home with you.- And so I wish j'ou 

 good morning. 



Report of the Executive Committee. 



H. C. White, of (ieorgia, chairman, sulnnitted the following report of the 

 executive committee : 



Your executive committee, appointed at the eighteenth annual convention of 

 the association held at Des Moines, Iowa, November 1-."., 1004, met inunediately 

 upon adjournment of the convention and organized by the selection of I'resi- 

 dent II. C. White, of Georgia, as chairman. Acting under instructions of the 

 conunittee the chairman issued and posted to each member of the association, 

 under date of January 10, 19(»5, an abstract memorandum of the proceedings of 

 the convention of 1904. The proceedings in full were edited by the chairman 

 and placed in the hands of the OHice of Exi)eriment Stations, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, for publication, Fel)ruary 2.1, 190."). Six subsequeht meetings 

 of the committee were held, as follows : At Washington, D. C, December 7-9, 

 1904: January 17-19, 1905: February 8-10. March 24-20, April 12-13, and No- 

 vember l.j. Six circulars of information concerning the residts of these meet- 

 ings were issued and jiosted to membersi of the association. The call for the 

 nineteenth (190")) annual convention was issued June 20, 1!X)5, and the pro- 

 gramme for the convention, as arranged by the committee, November 1. 



In recognition of the courteous invitation of the State University of Oi'egon, 

 " in belialf of the State of Oregon and the entire Northwest." to hold the nine- 

 teenth convention of the association in Portland. Oreg., during the Lewis and 

 Clark Exposition, the conunittee entered into correspondence with the officers of 

 the ex'position and others in Oregon and the Northwest, but, after due delibera- 

 tion, was convinced that it would be inexpedient to accept the invitation. It 

 was likewise found inexpedient to acce]it a very cordial invitation to hold the 

 tonv<'ntion at the University of Illinois at tlie time of the installation of 

 President James in October. At the time the call was issued for the present 

 meeting the conunittee was under the apprehension that an extra session of Con- 

 gress would be called to convene somewhat earlier, in November. 



