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and policy of the college itself. "The whole spirit and method of the 

 agricultural college must be 'socialized/" The first requisite to this 

 was indicated to be the conscious ideal or purpose of being " all things 

 to all farmers, " and the second, organization. The greatest need of 

 American agriculture to-day was declared to be soeial leadership, and 

 it was argued that the college should train men and women for this 

 service. Finally, " to carry out the function of the agricultural col- 

 lege, we need a vast enlargement of extension work among farmers. 

 This work will not only be dignified b} T a standing in the college 

 coordinate with research and the teaching of students, but it will rank 

 as a distinct department with a facultj^ of men whose chief business is 

 to teach the people who can not come to the college." 



Director William Saunders of the Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa, Canada, delivered an address on The Upbuilding of Agri- 

 culture. In this address the speaker treated of the development of 

 colleges of agriculture and experiment stations, and the great work 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. Coming to the 

 work in Canada, he described the various agencies at work there and 

 noted many of the profitable results of the experimental work in 

 Canada and British Columbia, paying special attention to the intro- 

 duction and improvement of cereals by selection and breeding. 



President James K. Patterson, representing a committee appointed 

 for that purpose, presented an eloquent tribute to the late Major 

 Henry E. Alvord, recording the high esteem and affection in which he 

 was held by the association, and testifying to his eminent services to 

 agriculture in the various public and private capacities in which he 

 served. "A sincere friend, a patriot, a soldier without sectional bit- 

 terness or prejudice, an efficient administrative officer, and a wise 

 counselor, with a lofty ideal of duty and of honor, this association 

 discharges a duty to itself by bearing hearty testimony to his con- 

 spicuous worth as a citizen and as a man. 17 



Resolutions were passed by the association tendering to the Hon. 

 11. C. Adams and Hon. F. YV . Mondell the hearty thanks of the asso- 

 ciation for their earnest, intelligent, and well-directed efforts in behalf 

 of the bill for increasing the appropriation to the experiment stations 

 and the "mining bill," and pledging the hearty cooperation and assist- 

 ance of the association. By another resolution the executive com- 

 mittee was authorized to use its efforts to secure the passage of these 

 bills and to give precedence in this to Mr. Adams's bill. 



Resolutions instructing the executive committee to endeavor to secure 

 the franking privilege for engineering experiment stations and for the 

 extension departments of the colleges were discussed at considerable 

 length, but were finally withdrawn, as action was not deemed expedi- 

 ent at this time. 



