CONVENTION OF AMERTCAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. HI 7 



tinned efforts be continued along these lines, and that the functions of 

 the committee be enlarged so as to inchuh* f(>edino- stuffs. The report 

 was adopted. 



The report of the conmiittee on methods of teaching- agriculture 

 was presented by A. C. True. The report included a brief account of 

 the Graduate School of Agriculture, at Columbus, a statement that a 

 report on facilities for teaching agronomy would soon be pul)lished, 

 and an account of Avork undertaken by the committee for the promo- 

 tion of secondar}' agricultural education. The demand for secondary 

 agricultural education and the inability of existing institutions to fully 

 meet that demand were pointed out. The committee therefore under- 

 took to show how, with very little rearrangement, courses of study in 

 the public high schools could be adapted to the needs of the pupils 

 desiring instruction in agriculture. This report has been prepared 

 for publication and will be issued at once as a circular of this Office. 



The report of the connnittee on pure-food legislation was presented 

 by the chairman, W. A. AVithers, who stated that there w^as a growing- 

 sentiment in favor of pure-food legislation, but a lack of agreement 

 regarding the machinery for the ejiforceraent of regulations. He 

 recommended continued efforts for the promotion of pure-food legis- 

 lation. 



No report was presented by the committee on cooperation between 

 the stations and U. S. Department of Agriculture, but W. J. Spillman 

 spoke brieffy in this connection ri^garding the cooperative work with 

 which the Bureau of Plant Industry is concerned. 



W. M. Hays, chairman of the committee on animal and plant 

 breeding, reported progress. The committee met at Columbus in 

 July and recommended the organization of the Plant and Animal 

 Breeders' Association. The report recommended that the committee 

 be continued and authorized to call a conference at the next meeting 

 of this association to organize a plant and animal breeders'' association 

 to meet for the first time in lOU-i. 



For the committee on designation of substations and trial stations, 

 W. ]M. Hays i-eported progress and recommended that the connnittee 

 be continued in order that it might confer with the Department of 

 Agriculture regarding the nomenclature of such institutions. 



A resolution introduced by E. Davenport, and adopted by the asso- 

 ciation, indorsed the plans of the Secretary of Agriculture for the pro- 

 motion of farmer's institutes throughout the country, and pledged the 

 active cooperation of the association in efforts to secure adequate finan- 

 cial support for this enterprise. A resolution calling on the executive 

 (ommittee to nse its influence with Congress to secure the regular and 

 prompt pu])licati()n of the Annual Report of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations was introduced by H. J. Wheeler and adopted by the associa- 

 tion. 



