510 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



available the facilities for research and advanced work in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and expressing a desire that these facilities be 

 still further extended and that a national university devoted exclu- 

 sively to advanced and graduate research be established. 



A sixth report of progress was submitted b}- the committee on 

 methods of teaching agriculture. Syllabi of courses in agrotechny, 

 rural eng'ineering, and rural economics, completing the outline of the 

 college course in agriculture, were completed by the committee since 

 the New Haven convention and published in the proceedings of that 

 convention and also as Circular No. 45 of this OiBce. In surve3nng 

 the progress of agricultural education in this country during recent 

 years, the committee "found abundant evidence that the attitude of 

 this association and the work of this committee as its representative 

 have already borne good fruit in stimulating and aiding the move- 

 ment for the specialization of agricultural instruction in our colleges, 

 the strengthening of the agricultural faculties, and the bettering of 

 the material equipment for agricultural education." The collation of 

 information regarding courses in agronomy in our agTicultural colleges 

 and the facilities for instruction in this subject was undertaken b}- the 

 committee during the 3"ear, and considerable progress was made. The 

 nature of the work was explained and some of the material already 

 accumulated was exhibited. 



The committee on cooperative work between the stations and the 

 Department of Agriculture made the following recommendations as 

 supplementar}^ to those embodied in the report submitted at the last 

 convention: "(1) When cooperation is desired by the station, it is 

 deemed advisable that the proposal for such cooperation be made to 

 the Department by the director of the experiment station; where, on 

 the other hand, the Department desires the cooperation of the station, 

 it is deemed advisable that the proposal be made in the first instance 

 to the director rather than to members of the staff. (2) While it is 

 well understood that no financial obligations can be undertaken beyond 

 the end of the fiscal year, yet it should be recognized that any arrange- 

 ment for joint experimentation which requires some years to complete 

 creates a moral obligation upon both parties to carry the work to con- 

 clusion. (3) Where a line of investigation has been in progress in 

 any State under the auspices of either institution, it is, as a rule, 

 unwise for the other party to undertake independently the same line of 

 investigation, at least until after full consultation upon the subject." 

 The committee was continued, with the addition of B. T. Galloway 

 from the Department of Agriculture. 



The report of the committee on indexing agricultural literature was 

 submitted by the chairman, A. C. True. Attention was called to the 

 fact that the Library of the Department of Agriculture would be 

 able to do this work if an appropriation of not less than $2,500 could 



