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Other papers presented before the association were as follows: Economic 

 Studies of I'nnn Tractors, by A. P. Yerkes and i>. s. Pox; Methods of Fertility 

 Maintenance Practiced on the More Successful Farms— viz: Cotton Growing 

 Region, by A. G. Smith; General Crop, Dairy, Truck, and Potato Farms in 

 New Jersey, by F. App; Appalachian Region, by J. II. Arnold; and Dairy 

 Regions of the Northeast, by J. A. Foord; Economic studies of Cotton Farms 

 under War Conditions, by J. R. Fain; Enterprise studies in Sugar Beet Areas, 

 by L. A. Moorhouse; Some Points Brought <>ut by Successive Surveys of the 

 Same Farms, by H. W. Hawthorn; Primary V. Derivative Foods In Times of 

 Food Shortage, by H. W. Mumford; Principles Involved in Fixing the Price of 

 Milk, by F. A. Pearson; The Farm Labor Outlook for 1919 and What Should 

 Be Done, by G. I. Christie, with a discussion led by E. V. Wilcox; Man Power 

 in Agriculture, by II. M. Eliot; Constructive Criticisms of Extension and 

 Demonstration Work in Farm Management, Based on Apparent Results to 

 Date, by M. C. Burritt; The Ideal Relationship between Extension and Demon- 

 stration Work, and Investigation in Farm Management, by C. R. Smith; and 

 How to Get and Use Credit in Farming, by II. C. Taylor. 



G. I. Christie. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, outlined the attitude of the 

 Federal Department of Agriculture toward farm management investigations, 

 and also led a general discussion on cost accounting with the view of standard- 

 izing the methods employed. Quite detailed reports were presented by the 

 committees on teaching, investigations, the formation of local sections, and 

 terminology. 



After considerable discussion it was decided that the growth of the activities 

 of this organization justified a change of name to the American Farm Economics 

 Association. Changes In the constitution made necessary by the change of 

 name were agreed to, the most important being a restatement of the object of 

 the association as "to promote investigation and teaching of farm management 

 and other economic questions pertaining to agriculture." 



The executive committee was instructed to determine the feasibility of start- 

 ing a journal comprising not more than four numbers the first year. It was 

 further recommended that committees be appointed as follows: To work toward 

 obtaining money for investigations in farm management and other economic 

 phases in agriculture, preferably from the Hatch fund; to draw up suggestions 

 for the Treasury Department relative to levying the income tax on farms; and 

 to confer with the Office of Extension Work North and West, of the U. S. 

 Departmenl of Agriculture, on farm management demonstration projects. 



Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President. J. R. Fain; 

 vice president, L. A. Moorhouse; and secretary-treasurer, F. W. Peck. 



American Society of Agronomy. — The eleventh annual meeting of this so- 

 ciety was held in Baltimore, January G and 7. 



The presidential address, prepared by Dr. T. L. Lyon, was presented at a 

 joint session held with the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Sclei 

 The subject of Dr. Lyon's address was The Influence of Higher Plants on 

 Certain Bacterial Activities in Soils, and it constituted a suggestive review of 

 the status of existing knowledge on the subject 



Other papers presented before the society Included the following: Effect of 

 Varying Degrees of Heat on the Viability of Seeds, by J. L. Burgess; Field 

 Crop Inspection, a Necessity to Standardization and Crop Improvement in 

 Cereals, by H. L. Bolley ; The Small Grain Varieties of Utah, by George Stew. 

 Carrying Capacity of Native Range Grasses in North Dakota, by .1. EL Shep- 

 pard; Green Sand Deposits as a Source of Potassium, by R. II. True; Ferti- 

 lizer Experiments on De Kalb Soils in Pennsylvania, by F. D. Gardner; A Me: hod 

 for Determining the Proper Stand of Corn under Southern Conditions, by C. A 



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