702 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. [Vol. 43 



figures as to the aggregate attendance were not obtainable, but prob- 

 ably at least five hundred persons were present for a greater or lesser 

 part of the proceedings. 



The association met earlier in the week than usual, commencing 

 on Tuesday evening and concluding its public sessions on the follow- 

 ing Thursday afternoon. This change was necessitated partly by 

 the Amherst excursion of Friday and partly by the arrangement for 

 Thursday evening of a " farm festival and beefsteak barbecue " on 

 the Eastern States P^xposition Grounds under the auspices of the ex- 

 position authorities. Some congestion followed the resulting reduc- 

 tion in the time available for meetings, despite many evidences of 

 skillful planning in the framing of the program. On the other band, 

 the convention was exceptionally free from extraneous distractions, 

 and has seldom been excelled in sustained interest and close attention 

 to the work before it. 



The excursion to the Massachusetts Agricultural College was 

 favored by ideal weather conditions, and an exceptional opportunity 

 was afforded to see something of the specialized agriculture of the 

 Connecticut Valley as well as for a brief tour of inspection of the 

 oldest and largest of the New England colleges of agriculture. No 

 formal exercises were held at the college other than an illustrated 

 lecture by Prof. F. A. Waugh on the college campus and grounds. 

 This was chiefly from the point of view of the landscape engineer, as 

 a practical demonstration of some of the possibilities in the develop- 

 ment of an institution of this type. Great interest was aroused in 

 the results which had already been accomplished, and there was gen- 

 eral regret at the limited time available for the stay at the institution. 



The revised constitution of the association provides for general 

 sessions, sectional meetings, and business sessions of the executive 

 body. Two evenings and an afternoon were assigned to the general 

 sessions and an equivalent amount of time was allotted to the various 

 sections, while the executive body had available two late afternoon 

 periods and the final evening. 



Two of the three sections, home economics and engineering, at- 

 tempted no subdivision of work and thus had at their disposal fully 

 as much time as in previous j^ears. The section on agriculture, how- 

 ever, subdivided into groups of resident teaching, experiment station 

 work, and extension service, these meeting simultaneously for morn- 

 ing and afternoon sessions on the second day, while the final period 

 on the morning of the third day was utilized for a session of the 

 entire section. This arrangement afforded an opportunity for a 

 common meeting ground of all agricultural workers, and received 

 many favorable expressions of opinion as well devised to secure 

 united action and promote institutional homogeneit3^ With a view 



