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ciation the organization and policy which, in the opinion of the com- 

 mission, should prevail in the expenditure of public money provided 

 for scientific experimentation and research in the interests of agri- 

 culture, to the end that such funds shall be applied in the most eco- 

 nomical, efficient, and worthy manner to the production of results of 

 permanent value." 



The discussion of this resolution indicatea a general feeling that 

 for the purposes of research the various agencies in this country, 

 partly from lack of system, have not been as efficient as they might 

 be made, and that much good might come from an impartial survey 

 of the whole field by men competent to analyze the situation and to 

 plan broadly. The resolution was adopted. 



The association put itself on record as favoring an attempt to 

 secure increased Federal appropriation for education in agriculture 

 and mechanic arts, and instructed its executive committee to cause 

 a measure drawn on the same general lines as the second Morrill 

 Act, to be introduced in Congress." 



SECTION ON COLLEGE WORK AND ADMINISTRATION. 



In the section on college work and administration the main topics 

 of discussion were: (1) Administration of the land-grant colleges — 

 organization and classification of the instructional force, control of 

 student activities and student labor; (2) relation of the land-grant 

 college to the public school system, to the agricultural industries, and 

 to the mechanical industries; and (3) curriculum of the land-grant 

 college — study of home economics in the land-grant college, the 

 short practical course, its place and importance, and agricultural 

 extension. (For a fuller account see p. 235.) 



SECTION ON EXPERIMENT STATION WORK. 



In the section on the experiment station work attention was devoted 

 principally to discussion of questions relating to the Adams Act 

 and agricultural research in general. The Director and the Assistant 

 Director of this Office explained the provisions and limitations of the 

 Adams Act, plans for the administration of the funds under it, and 

 some of the difficulties experienced by the stations in inaugurating 

 work under the act. H. P. Armsby urged that the stations should 

 consider not so much the legal requirements as the opportunities for 

 advanced scientific Avork offered under the act, and a recognition of 



o Such a measiu'e was iutroduoed into both branches of the Fifty-ninth Con- 

 gress, second session. The appropriation was, however, finally provided for 

 by a clause in the ai)pr<)priation act of this Department for the fiscal year 

 ending .Tunc ?,0. lOOS, which increases the appropriation for each land-grant 

 college $5,UU0 annually for five years. 



