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agricultural colleges aid in securing the consolidation of scattered rural schools 

 and their more liberal financial support, undertake a propaganda for rural 

 high schools within the States and teachers' training classes in these schools, 

 and favor a law requiring the teaching of agriculture in elementary schools 

 and the training of teachers in the elements of agriculture. President Vincent, 

 of Minnesota, described some of the activities of the Minnesota College of 

 Agriculture, and advocated summer sessions at the colleges and other means for 

 training rural teachers. 



President D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, in a paper entitled Some Changed 

 Attitudes, called attention to the increasing pressure in technical institutions 

 for the replacement of cultural by utilitarian subjects. He believed there is 

 danger of mental contraction unless this attitude is modified. Inasmuch as 

 the mei*e training of exports wall not make leaders of men, he advocate<l the 

 retention of some subjects which turn men's minds away from the purely ma- 

 terialistic point of view. " Profound knowledge of a specialty plus power to 

 be reasonably at home in many realms of thought — these after all are the 

 ingredients of forceful manhood. You can not quicken a living spirit with 

 mere information." 



He also favored interesting students in the discussion of civic questions, 

 partly as a means of training, since scientific men often must appear before 

 commisions, boards, legislatures, and the like, but also partly because they 

 have a responsibility as educated men. In discussing this paper, President W. 

 O. Thompson, of Ohio, developed the idea of preparation for all sides of life, 

 moral, social, and civic, as well as vocational. 



The Cost of Instruction in Agricultural Colleges and the Relation of Sal- 

 aries in the Division of Agriculture to those of other Divisions in Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Universities, was discussed by President C. A. Lory, of 

 Colorado. He described and illustrated by means of charts a system of cost 

 keeping based on the units of semester credit, student semester credit, and 

 student recitation hour, as tested at the Colorado College, where the last 

 named was found the most satisfactory. A uniform system of cost keeping 

 was deemed well-nigh essential for comparing statistics from similar insti- 

 tutions. 



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Under the topic of Meat Production as a Factor in the Progress of Agricul- 

 ture in the United States, George M. Rommel, of this Department, presented 

 for Dr. A. D. Melvin and himself, a paper on Meat Production in Argentina 

 and Its Effect on the Industry in the United States. 



Although the Argentine export trade in beef during the last 15 years has 

 grown remarkably, and about 154,000,000 lbs. of beef and meat products were 

 imported into the United States during the year ended with September, 1914, 

 the speakers considered this largely attributable to the decline in the surplus 

 production in this country- At the present time killings are about as great 

 as the supply of breeding animals will warrant, so that American breeders need 

 have little fear of serious competition. On the other hand, Argentina offers 

 a promising market for high-grade breeding stock. 



Dean F. B. Mumford, of jNIissouri, discussed Meat Production on the High- 

 priced Corn Lands, showing that the total production of beef, pork, and mutton 

 in this country is falling off despite the rapidly increasing demands, and that 

 this shortage is due primarily to the fact that under present conditions meat 

 production is relatively less profitable than other lines of agriculture, especially 

 grain growing. He concluded that the methods which are likely to result in 



