EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. 2. JANUARY, 1891. No. 6. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 

 Stations held its fourth annual convention November 11-13 at Cham- 

 paign, Illinois, with the University of Illinois. The association is made 

 up of representatives of the land grant colleges and experiment sta- 

 tions and of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



The meeting was the largest the association has yet held. There were 

 one hundred and ten delegates, representing thirty-nine States and Ter- 

 ritories, and about seventy colleges and stations. It was noticeable and 

 the cause of frequent congratulation that this convention contained an 

 unusually large number of the experiment station workers, in addition 

 to the directors. President Smart of the Purdue University of Indiana, 

 presided at the general sessions. As a full report of the proceedings 

 will be published as a separate bulletin of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, only general references to the action of the convention need 

 be made here. 



An amendment to the constitution adopted at the Washington con- 

 vention in 1889 provided for the division of the association into sections, 

 or permanent committees, as they were originally called. Sections have 

 been organized in agriculture, botany, chemistry, college work, ento- 

 mology, and horticulture. Their meetings were held during the recesses 

 of the general association, and consumed the greater part of the time 

 allotted to the convention. They were taken up with discussions of a 

 technical character. A list of the topics presented in each section is 

 given below. 



At the first general meeting of the association the chairmen of the 

 sections elected at the last meeting were called upon for reports of prog- 

 ress made in their several lines of work at the stations and elsewhere 

 during the past year. The papers presented justified the expectation 

 of the last convention that these reports would furnish a most impor- 

 tant feature of the association meetings. Especially full and valuable 

 were the reports upon chemistry and entomology. 



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