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The program of the Association of American Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations naturally gave primary considera- 

 tion to questions associated with the war and its relations to the 

 Jand-grant institutions. The presidential address, for example, was 

 entitled The Morrill Act Institutions and the New Epoch. It con- 

 sidered some of the far-reaching changes which the war is bringing 

 to the Nation, and the responsibilities and opportunities of these 

 institutions not only during the conflict itself but in the era to 

 follow. 



In this address President Butterfield outlined some of the ideals 

 of the democracy for which the Nation is contending, such as real 

 equality of opportunity, the exaltation of manhood and of the re- 

 ligious motive, and the substitution of cooperation for coercion. He 

 indicated that the Nation would look to the agricultural colleges for 

 their full share of leadership in bringing these ideals to realization. 

 As he brought out, this will mean far more than the training of ex- 

 perts to increase production, important as this will continue to be. 

 Its aim will be to develop leaders, men and women broadly educated 

 and with vision and sympathetic understanding of what the new 

 democracy will represent in rural life. As a preliniinarv step to 

 meet the changing conditions, President Butterfield suggested the 

 appointment of a national agricultural committee to consider the 

 whole rural situation as affected by the war. 



Practically an entire afternoon was devoted to a discussion of food 

 and food administration, with addresses by Hon. Herbert C. Hoover, 

 director of the Federal Food Administration; Prof. Isabel Bevier, 

 of Illinois; Dean Catharine J. MacKay, of Iowa; and President C R. 

 Van Hise, of Wisconsin. The address of Secretary Hoa^ton, already 

 referred to, discussed the season's work in food production and simi- 

 lar needs of the future. The experiment station section devoted its 

 entire attention to this topic, with papers by Dr. Graham Lusk, enti- 

 tled Calories in Common Life, this being mainly a discussion of the 

 economic use of foods on the basis of their energy values, and a 

 symposium on what the stations can most profitably do to increase the 

 eiriciency of food production and conservation in the present national 

 emergency, participated in by Dr. Kaymond Pearl, of Maine; Dr. 

 E. W. Allen, of the Office of Experiment Stations; and others. Froii" 

 a somewhat different point of view the home-economics division took 

 up the food-conservation program in a joint session with the C(m- 

 ference of home-demonstration agents, Dr. A. E. Taylor, of tho Food 

 Administration, discussing the necessity and purpose of food con- 

 servation, and others, representing the Food Administration and 

 the States Relations Service, describing the past summei's work and 

 projected plans for the future. 



