308 EXPEKIMENT STATION" RECOED. 



and the need of an extension sj'stem for bringing the results di- 

 rectly to the farmer. Research in Uruguay, it was stated, has dealt 

 especially with studies of the laws of inheritance of plants and ani- 

 mals, grain breeding and culture, and the adaptation of plants to 

 Uruguayan conditions, and international cooperation in adaptation 

 work Avas suggested as feasible. 



The status of forestry instruction in this country was reviewed 

 by Prof. J. W. Tourney, of the Yale Forest School, who regarded 

 the provision of vocational training of secondary grade and oppor- 

 tunity for demonstration work as more essential at the present time 

 than the further development of advanced technical instruction in 

 forestry. A paper by President K. L. Butterfield, of the ^lassa- 

 chusetts College, called attention to the responsibility of the agri- 

 cultural college through its extension service in the present transition 

 period of American agriculture to correlate the various agencies 

 designed to bring about a more complete organization of agriculture 

 and country life, but insisted that education and not management 

 must be the province of the agricultural college or other institutions 

 in this and related matters. 



The meetings of the subsection on meteorology and seismology 

 were presided over by the chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, and a 

 very full program of papers covering various phases of these subjects 

 was presented. The number of papers which dealt directly or indi- 

 rectly with applied meteorology, and particularly with meteorology 

 as applied to agriculture, was surprisingly large, and indicated quite 

 clearly a rather general awakening of interest in the study of prob- 

 lems which may be broadly included under the term agricultural 

 meteorology. 



Two papers dealt directly with this subject, one by Prof. J. W. 

 Smith entitled Agricultural Meteorology, in which data collected in 

 Ohio as to the critical periods of growth of the staple crops were sum- 

 marized, and the other by Mr. J. F. Voorhees on climatic control of 

 cropping systems and farm operations, in which the author main- 

 tained on the basis of his findings in Tennessee that all successful 

 cropping systems must be based on climatic conditions, and that more 

 knowledge is needed of the relationship between plants and animals 

 on the one side and climatic conditions on the other. A third paper 

 by Dr. J. E. Church, of the Nevada Station, dealt with problems 

 encountered in snow surveying as a basis for estimating the seasonal 

 water supply for irrigation. Other papers considered frost prob- 

 lems and forecasts in relation to fighting forest fires. 



The congress was brought to a close by a general session at which 

 thirty-six resolutions which had been offered and considered by 

 the various sections were adopted. These resolutions were designed 



