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Office of the Secretary, 



State College, Pa., August 9, lfc90. 

 Dear Sir: By authority of the executive committee, a delegate convention of this 

 Association is hereby called to meet at Champaign, 111., at noon of Tuesday, November 

 11, 1890. 



Attention is called to the following article of the constitution of the Association 

 respecting membership : 



"At any regnhirly called meeting of the Association each college established under 

 the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and each experiment station established 

 under Slate or Congressional authority, and the Department of Agriculture, shall be 

 entitled to one delegate, but no delegate shall cast more than one vote. Other in- 

 stitutions engaged in experimental work in the interest of agriculture may be ad- 

 mitted to representation in this Association by a majority vote at any regular meeting 

 of the Association. 



In accordance with the requirements of the amendment to the constitution adopted 

 at the last convention of the Association, the permanent committee on chemistry and 

 on horticulture and the standing committee on college work are hereby designated 

 to present a portion of the subjects coming before them in the general sessions of the 

 convention. 



The executive committee is not yet able to announce the program of the meeting, 

 but will do so at an early day. 

 Very respectfully, 



Henry E. Alvord, Chairman, 



For the Executive Committee. 

 H. P. Armsby, 



Secretary. 



Alabama College Station. — W. B. Frazer has been appointed clerk and account- 

 ant to the director. Two additional silos are being built. Provision has been made 

 for the establishment of a poultry department in charge of the agriculturist. 



Colorado Station. — The duties of agriculturist of the station have, under the 

 present arrangement, devolved upon the director, C. L. IngersoU, M. S., who is aided 

 by E. H. McDowell, B. S., as assistant agriculturist. The last work of the late Prof. 

 James Cassidy, as botanist and horticulturist of the station, has been embodied in a 

 bulletin entitled " Some Colorado Grasses and their Chemical Analysis," published in 

 July. 



Connecticut State Station. — In order to bring the results of fertilizer inspec- 

 tion promptly to the attention of the public, weekly statements of analyses are sent 

 to the two agricultural papers most widely circulated in Connecticut and to the secre- 

 taries of all granges, farmers' clubs, and agricultural societies in the State. 



Georgia Station.— The contract with the State University, under which the 

 scientific laboratory work of the station during the past year has been done at the 

 University, expired by limitation of terms June 30. The station staff now comprises 

 the director, chemist, horticulturist, and agriculturist, of whom all except the chemist 

 reside upon the station farm. The board of directors will shortly commence to 

 ereet on the farm suitable buildings for laboratory, barns, and dairy. The building 

 fund allowed by the United States act of March 2, 1887, from the appropriation to 

 the station for the first year, having been expended at Athens, the board is now greatly 

 embarrassed for means to erect proper buildings. 



Illinois Station. —George P. Clinton, B. S., has been added to the station staff as 

 assistant botanist. 



Louisiana Station. — The legislature has increased the annual appropriation for 

 the stations from $6,000 to $9,000, and has passed a law to prevent, by station super- 

 vision, the adulteration of Paris green. Facilities for experiments in sugar making 

 have been provided on a limited scale at the North Louisiana Station. At the semi- 

 annual meeting of the State Agricultural Society, held in Agricultural Hall at the 



