314 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



G. H. Hicks submitted the following - resolution relating to pure seeds: 



Resolved, (1) That this Association earnestly recommends that sonic practical 

 instruction in seed testing and seed investigation be offered at each of onr agri- 

 cultural colleges, and that the experiment stations equip themselves for investiga- 

 tions in seed testing, following so far as may be found practicable the rules and 

 methods adopted by this Association and published in Circular No. 34 of the office 

 of Experiment Stations. 



(2) Furthermore, we recommend that one or more lectures on agricultural seeds 

 and the best means for ascertaining the real value of the same be given at our 

 farmers' institutes, and that the importance of this subject he urged upon all suita- 

 ble occasions. 



(3) We heartily indorse the efforts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, by 

 means of its pure-seed investigations, to secure an improvement in the quality of 

 agricultural seeds, and we recommend that the experiment stations and agricultural 

 colleges cooperate with the Department in this work. 



The following resolution on plant registration, reported from the sec- 

 tion on horticulture and botany, was adopted by the Association: 



Resolved, That we urge upon the U. S. Department of Agriculture the importance 

 of extending its collections of fruits and other economic plants by the addition of 

 specimens showing the foliage, dowers, or other parts, and of photographs showing 

 typical trees or plants of all varieties offered for sale, in order to aid in the descrip- 

 tion of varieties and in the study of plant variation as well as to discourage the 

 duplication of names and to secure due recognition to the originators of valuable 

 varieties, and that there may be some one place Avhere all varieties placed upon the 

 market may be officially registered numbered, and described. 



The thanks of the Association were voted to the Commercial Club, of 

 Minneapolis, and to the University of Minnesota for courtesies extended 

 to the Association, and to President Hill, of the Great Northern Kail- 

 way, for an invitation to visit the Red River Y alley as guests of the 

 railroad. Many of the delegates took advantage of the opportunity 

 afforded by President Hill's invitation to visit this famous agricultural 

 region. 



In the course of the convention opportunity was afforded Prof. H. E. 

 Armstrong, of London, England, to deliver the third biennial course of 

 lectures on the experimental work at Rothainsted, as provided for by 

 the Lawes Agricultural Trust. 



The officers of the Association for the ensuing year are as follows: 



President, H. C. White, of Georgia; vice-presidents, Alston Ellis of 

 Colorado, W. M. Liggett of Minnesota, S. M. Emery of Montana, C. S. 

 Plumb of Indiana, and E. W. Hilgard of California; secretary and 

 treasurer, E. B. Voorhees of New Jersey; executive committee, II. H. 

 Good ell of Massachusetts (chairman), A. Cope of Ohio, J. H. Wash- 

 burn of Rhode Island, P. H. Jesse of Missouri, and ex officio the }>resi- 

 dent, the junior ex president (G. T. Fairchild), and the secretary and 

 treasurer; bibliographer, A. C. True, of Washington, I). C. 



Section on college work. — Chairman, Alston Ellis, of Colorado; vice- 

 chairman, J. L. Snyder, of Michigan; secretary, E. A. Bryan, of 

 Washington. 



Section on agriculture and chemistry. — Chairman, U. -). Redding, of 



