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work tlii-ouuliout tlic coiiiiliy. One of the iiijiin <)l)jocts at present is 

 to lu'lp to increase the etiiciency of the institute lecturers, now num- 

 herino- over SOO, less than half of whom are connected with the work 

 of the colleges or the stations. A corps of specially trained institute 

 workers was recommended as eventually desirable, to relieve the col- 

 lege and station men of much of the burden of this work, as it is still 

 the opinion of the Ofiice that the prime object of college men is to 

 teach and of station men to investigate. The speaker pointed out the 

 greatness and importance of the farmers' institute enterprise as a 

 means for the future development of agriculture, the building up of a 

 proper system of agricultural education and research, and developing 

 a generation of farmers who will be in position to appreciate and apply 

 the results of the work of these institutions. 



A resolution presented by C. E. Thorne commended the reviews 

 furnished by the Experiment Station Record, and suggested an exten- 

 sion of these to include more full abstracts in the case of some of the 

 foreign publications, which are accessible to only a portion of the sta- 

 tion workers, and directed the executive committee of* the association 

 to urge upon the Secretary of Agriculture the securing of additional 

 funds for this purpose. 



The plans of the new building for the Department of Agriculture 

 were exhibited and explained by B. T. Galloway. 



A very cordial invitation was extended to the association to hold its 

 next meeting at Portland, Oregon. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 



President, W. O. Thompson, of Ohio; vice-presidents, D. F. Houston 

 of Texas, J. C. Hardy of Mississippi, J. H. Worst of North Dakota, 

 H. J. Wheeler of Rhode Island, and B. C. Buffum of Wyoming; 

 secretary and treasurer, E. B. Voorhees, of New Jersey; bibliographer, 

 A. C. True, of Washington, D. C. ; executive committee, H. C. White 

 of Georgia, G. W. Atherton of Pennsylvania, J. L. Snyder of Mich- 

 igan, W. H. Jordan of New York, and C. F. Curtiss of Iowa. 



Section on coUege%oorh and adrriinisty'ation. — Chairman, W. E. Stone, 

 of Indiana; secretar}^, G. E. Fellows, of Maine; committee on pro- 

 gramme, W. E. Stone of Indiana, G. E. Fellows of Maine, and H, W. 

 Tyler of Massachusetts. 



Section on exjperiinent station work. — Chairman, E. H. Jenkins, of 

 Connecticut; secretary, M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky; committee on 

 programme, J. H. Shepperd of North Dakota, B, W. Kilgore of 

 North Carolina, and M. A. Scovell of Kentuck3^ 



GENERAL SESSIONS. 



No sessions were held b}^ the section on mechanic arts. The pro- 

 grammes of the other sections were quite full and are briefl}^ noted 

 below. 



