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Statistical Work of thk V. S. Ukpartment of Ac.ricultttre. 



H. r. White, of (Joorsia. The executivo coinmitteo roports the resohition 

 offered by Director Waters, of Missouri (p. 'J'.ti. and recoiiiiueiuls its iiassajie in 

 the foHowiiif; aiiieiukHl form: 



Whereas the collection and publication of accurate aiiricultural statistics is of 

 importance and of great assistance to the land-grant colleges in connection with 

 the teaching of agricultural economics: Therefore, be it 



Rrsolrcd. That it is the sense of the American Association of Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations that the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture should continue the collection and disscnnnation of information and 

 statistics with respect to the condition and .yield of farm crops. 



The resolution was adopted as amended. 



Report of Committee on College and Station ExiiiniT at the St. Louis 



Expos rnoN. 



W. IT. .ToRDAN. of New York. Your committee wishes to present yon with a 

 document which covers the history of the life of that connnittee, and to call 

 to your attention the fact that the initiative of the effort to secure the exhibit 

 at St. Louis began four years ago, so that the work of your committee covers 

 four years from the initiation of the effort to the final act. Our object in hav- 

 ing this report prepared (and we owe many thanks to the Office of Experiment 

 Stations for the real labor of the preparation of the report), covering, as it 

 does, a complete history of what the comnnttee did. is to put it on file, so that 

 it may he available to those who have any such burden in the future, a complete 

 record of what was done at the St. Lcmis Exposition, and what steps .-ind ma- 

 chinery were used that would pertain to sinular efforts. 



I only wish to make one or two remarks on this. In the first place, we did 

 not spend all our money. The main reason for expending only about $90,000 

 out of the $100,000 that we had was that we were unable to inaugurate, on so 

 extensive a basis as we desired, what was known as the " outside exhibit." 



A. C. True. I take it that the acceptance of this report will hardly include the 

 ordinary understanding that it is to be made a part of the proceedings of this 

 meeting. We have to deal with the printing of these in the Department of 

 Agriculture, and it is, therefore, of interest to me. I woidd suggest that it be 

 received with the understanding that it is to be placed on file in the Office of 

 Experiment Stations, where it will be available to all future committees who 

 have to deal with such matters. I have considerable doubt whether, as Director 

 of the Office of Experiment Stations, I could recommend the publication of the 

 report in its present form. There are many details in it which would be of 

 very little use except to a committee dealing with tlie matter. There is abso- 

 lutely no provision in law for the printing l)y the Government of any report of 

 the St. Louis Exposition. The only thing that the Government Board has under- 

 taken, as I understand it, is the preparation of a catalogue, more or less exten- 

 sive, of the exhibit as a whole. If that is to be printed at all it will have 

 to be by special act of Congress. In the case of the Chicago exhibit, if I re- 

 member correctly, no report was ever printed by the Government. In the 

 cases of some of the foreign expositions quite extensive reports have been 

 printed. I might say that a somewhat extended report of this exhibit, with 

 illustrations, has been published by the Office of Experiment Stations in its 

 report for the year 1904, and, as far as I am aware, that covers everything that 

 the association desires to have that can be gotten out of this report. 



James K. Patterson, of Kentucky. That report, I have no doubt, contains a 

 great deal of valuable matter. I doubt whether any appreciable part of the 



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