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from the systems of issuing publications followed in some of the sta- 

 tions was clearly brought out and means by wliich they may be sim- 

 plified were explained. 



The following recommendations of the executive committee were 

 adopted : 



(1) That the Association calls the attention of all concerned to the limitations of 

 the franking privilege granted experiment stations. The law is explicit, providing 

 only for the franking of bulletins and college reports containing the annual reports 

 of stations. Great care should he observed by station officers not to abuse this valu- 

 able privilege so very necessary to the work of the stations. 



(2) That the chairman of the section and the editors of the proceedmgs of the 

 convention be constituted a committee to pass on the papers from each section, and 

 that the Department [of Agriculture] be urged to print the papers recommended by 

 this committee. 



(3) That the station directors drop from their mailing list the names of workers in 

 other stations and depend entirely upon the list furnished at Washington, sending 

 for a fresh copy at the time of issuing each bulletin. 



' (4) In view of the large and increasing nvimber of measures which are introduced 

 in Congress affecting the interests of the colleges and stations, and the frequent lack 

 of cooperation among those interested concerning such measures, whereby the influ- 

 ence of the Association and the interests it represents are liable to be materially 

 weakened, the committee respectfully recommends that institutions members of 

 the Association and their officers refrain trom advocating measures affecting the 

 interests of all until such measures shall have been considered and approved by the 

 Association. 



(5) That hereafter no committee acting under the appointment of this Association 

 shall incur any expense without the specific authority of the executive committee. 



A committee, consisting of G. W. Atherton, of Pennsylvania; A. Q. 

 Holladay, of North Carolina; and H. n. Goodell, of Massachusetts, was 

 appointed to wait on the War Department and adjust relations between 

 it and the colleges. 



Consideration of the formation of a j)ermaneiit section on irrigation 

 was postponed until the next convention. 



A brief report was submitted by the committee on indexing of agri- 

 cultural literature, appointed at the last convention. In view of the 

 incompleteness of the work and the extensive field to be covered the 

 membership of the committee was increased to 5, and it was instructed 

 to continue the work. The committee consists of A. C. True, of this 

 Ofiice; W. M. Hays, of Minnesota; the librarian (W. P. Cutter) of this 

 Department; H. P. Armsby, of Pennsylvania, and E. Davenport, of 

 Illinois. 



The report of the bibliographer was submitted by A. C. True, accom- 

 panied by a list^ of 1,450 books and pamphlets on agriculture and the 

 associated sciences which have appeared within the last four years. 



By a resolution offered by G. E, MacLean, of Nebraska, the executive 

 committee was authorized to take steps looking to the adoption by 

 Congress of the metric system of weights and measures. 



The amendment to the constitution offered by II. P. Armsby at the 



1 U. S. Dept. Agr., Office of Experiment Stations Circular 31. 



