20 



The report was accepted. (For discnssion til" its rf'coinmciKlations see p. 42.) 

 Report ok Treasi kkk. 



The secretary-treasurer, .1. L. Hills, of N'cnnoiit. sulnuitled the following 

 financial statement : 



Report of trvasurcr of tlic U!<siwi(itioit, XoiciiiIk r 1. I'Ju'i. to XorcniJxr 1). HKi'i. 



RECEIPTS. 



Received of E. B. Voorhees, secretary-treasurer $<;3.'}. 92 



Received, refund of advance to joint agent Des Moines 



convention 17.00 



Received, dues 1. 545. 00 



Total $2, 195. 92 



EXPENDITURES. 



Executive committee $1, 095. 45 



Secretary-treasurer, printing, postage, telegrams, etc 24.40 



Railroad certificates, Des Moines 33.20 



Stenographer, Des Moines 28.25 



Wreath, funeral President Goodell — 10.00 



Expense account. President Voorhees, N. E. A. meeting — 8. 75 



1, 200. 05 



Balance in bank November 14, 1905 995.87 



Joseph L. Hills, Srcrrtary-Trrasiircr. 

 The report was referred to an auditing couuuittee consisting of W. D. Gibbs, 

 of New Hampshire, and B. C. Buffuni, of Wyoming, which subseipiently reported 

 as follows : 



Your auditing committee beg to report that they have examined the books of 

 the treasurer and that all accounts have been found correct. 



The report was approved. 



Report of the Bibliographer. 



The bibliographer, A. C. True, of the Office of ExperinuMit Stations, sub- 

 mitted the following report : 



As has been the custom for a number of years, the more important bibliogra- 

 I)hies on agricultural subjects met with during the year have l)eeii noted from 

 time to time in the Experiment Station Record, ami have been compiled from 

 that source to form the basis of this report. 



An examination of the list here submitted will show the usual annual reports 

 on the literature and general progress in animal diseases, bacteriology, chem- 

 istry, entomology, plant diseases, sericulture, zoology, and other general lines; 

 a few special bibliographies on such subjects as the occurrence of aluminum 

 in various ])roducts. North American Fstilaginere, and the loco weed: and a 

 considerable number of bibliographies or lists of references accompanying spe- 

 cial articles or incorjiorated in text-books. Some of the subjects of the last class 

 are as follows: Chemistry of proteids, nitrogen metabolism in plants, weather 

 influences. i»lant bri'eding, formation of milk fat, soil bacteria, citrus fruits and 

 their culture, textile fibers, timbers of commerce and their identification, and 

 cheese ripening. 



All the general bibliographies of agriculture noted in previous reports have 

 been continued and a new one on the agricultural literature of Belgium has 

 appeared. 



Among the bihliogr:i])bies appearing in bulletins and rejwrts of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the experiment stations are those 'on the following 

 subjects: Soil bacteria and nitrogen assimilation, seed selection according to 



