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specialists was pointed out. The attitude of the investigator or in- 

 structor toward his work was considered " just as important as the 

 work itself," and it was urged that no person can be considered pre- 

 pared for college or station work who does not possess the scientific 

 spirit. " "We may well rest content that our work w'ill propagate 

 itself if the work is well done and enthusiastically presented." The 

 best work for state or national constituency is that which inspires 

 that constituency to help itself. 



Professor Bailey thought that only maturer and more experienced 

 men should be put in full charge of very responsible w'ork, and that 

 more time should be given to the training of persons for such work. 

 The equivalent of a good high-school training, a regular four-year 

 college course, and a thorough post-graduate training, leading first 

 to a master's degree and ultimately to a doctor's degree, was con- 

 sidered necessary. " In order that a post-graduate degree may mean 

 something, it is important not only that the post-graduate w^ork 

 itself is good, but that only those persons be allowed to candidacy 

 who give evidence of being intelligently able to pursue the work 

 with satisfaction." 



The report of the committee on extension work, presented by K. L. 

 Butterfield, of Massachusetts, advocated the formation of a new sec- 

 tion of the association on extension work, a federal appropriation to 

 the States and to the U. S. Department of Agriculture for extension 

 work, the franking privilege for extension publications, and the 

 organization of separate extension departments by the land-grant 

 colleges. At a later session of the convention the recommendation 

 with reference to amendment of the constitution to provide for a 

 section on extension work was taken up, and after discussion was 

 adopted by formal vote. This amendment provides for " a section on 

 extension work composed of directors or superintendents of exten- 

 sion departments in the institutions in this association, or the repre- 

 sentatives of such departments duly and specifically accredited to 

 this section." The other recommendations of the committee were 

 approved. 



The report of the committee on station organization and policy 

 Avas confined to a consideration of methods of dissemination of the 

 results of station investigations, and dealt with the questions of 

 improving present means of publication and of securing a common 

 medium of publishing the results of station research work. In the 

 opinion of the committee " every legitimate effort should be made 

 to aid the agricultural press in presenting the station work to the 

 people at large in a popular form. To this end abstracts of bulletins 

 should >be furnished to the press and also illustrative material by way 

 of cuts, charts, etc." The committee also advocated greater atten- 

 tion to the organization of cooperative and demonstration work, 



