CONVENTION OF ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 1906. 



E. W. Allen, Ph. D., 



Office of Experiment Hf at ions. 



The twentieth annual convention of this association was held at 

 Baton Eouge, Louisiana, November 14-lG, 1906. The headquarters 

 of the association were at the Istrouma Hotel, where most of the ses- 

 sions were held with the exception of the evening session, at which the 

 presidential address was delivered, which took place in the assembly 

 hall of Louisiana State University. The meeting was an unusu- 

 ally large one, and, as has been the case in recent years, it was made 

 the occasion for the meeting of several societies and associations not 

 affiliated with theassociation, although related to it in work. Among 

 these were the Associations of State Universities, of Farmers' Insti- 

 tute Workers, and of Horticultural Inspectors, the Society for the 

 Promotion of Agricultural Science, and the Economic Entomologists 

 of the Cotton Belt. 



The association enjoyed the hospitality of Louisiana State Univer- 

 sity and the experiment station, and under their auspices an excursion 

 was made by boat to the Cinclaire sugar plantation and factory, 

 about 8 miles down the Mississippi River, where opportunity was 

 offered to follow the cane from the field through the various stages 

 in the sugar factor}^, to the separation of the crude sugar. This ex- 

 cursion proved a pleasant social event, and a most interesting experi- 

 ence to a large proportion of the delegates, who were thus given a 

 more definite impression of an important agricultural industry. Fol- 

 lowing the convention many of the delegates spent a day in New 

 Orleans as the guests of Tulane University, and participated in a ban- 

 quet given in their honor. 



GENERAL SESSIONS. 



The general sessions were presided over by President M. H. Buck- 

 ham, of Vermont, who delivered the annual presidential address on 

 the evening of the first day. This was in the main a plea for plac- 

 ing greater emphasis upon the liberal and " humanistic " culture 

 studies in the curriculum, as a means of preventing narrowness and 

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