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of perniaiuMit pastures. Ho also cousidc'vod it important to secure 

 better bred eattle by the use of pur(»-])red l)ulls on native stock and to 

 (Hlucate and train stockmen. 



C (J. Hopkins disfusstnl the possibilities in plant breeding- and selec- 

 tion, considering chietiy the (juestion of breedino- and scdectino- corn 

 for ditl'erimt pui"])oses. that is. for hio-h or h)w protein content, hiuh 

 or low starch content, and high or low oil content. He showed that a 

 small change in any one of these constituents, if fixed l)y t>reeding- and 

 selection, would have a great intluence on the market price of coi'u. 

 J. T, Willard emphasized the importance of basing investigations on 

 the real needs of the section of the country in which they are under- 

 taken, and called attention to the fact that a variety l)red up to meet a 

 certain demand in one section of the country is (luite apt to prove a 

 failure from the same point of view in another section, lie considered 

 it important that stations (mcourage local effort in this connection, and 

 that they devote themselves to problems of (Economic importance rather 

 than to fanciful features. The papers were discussed with a great deal 

 of interest by Di-. D. ]Morris. K. Davenport, W. J. Spillmnn, and 

 others. 



The Source of Carbohydrates for the South for the Production of 

 Meat was the subject of papers by W. J. Spillman, J. F. Duggar, and 

 K. J. Redding. The latter paper was read only by title. The two 

 speakers were in practical agreement in nearlj^ every point of their 

 discussion. They brought out the fact that in the South carbohy- 

 drates are more expensive than in the North, and that the production 

 of them to supplement nitrogenous feeds is an important pro])lem. 

 Among the things suggested for introduction and test were cowpeas, 

 corn, sorgh.im, Kafir corn, millo maize, teosinte, cassava, sweet i)ota- 

 toes, peanuts, Bermuda grass, cral) grass, and the bv-products of rice. 



SECTION ON COLLKGE WORK. 



A. C. True, of this Office, presented a paper on The (Iraduate School 

 of Agriculture as a Means of Improving the Pedagogical Form of 

 Courses in Agriculture, in which he showed the existence of one of the 

 elements which are considered necessary to pedagogical form, namely, a 

 body of knowledge regarding the subject under consideration. Some 

 of the other elements, such as the arrangement in progressive order 

 of the topics selected to be taught, appropriate apparatus, illustrative 

 material, text-books, and works of reference, he found to be inade- 

 (|uate. He showed, however, how the Graduate School of Agricul- 

 ture might be expected to result in greatly improving these condi- 

 tions, how it might result in better agreement among educators regard- 

 ing topics to l)e taught and the order of treatment, how the excellent 

 apparatus found at Colum])us had furnished many suggestions for 

 improving the apparatus in other institutions, and how already a 



