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unanimousl}' adopted, looking to the establishment of an international 

 commission to secure uniformity of methods of investigation in all the 

 experiment stations of the world. The plan of organization of this 

 commission will be announced later. 



The desirability of international methods is thoroughly appreciated 

 in this country, where for a number of years past the Association of 

 Official Agricultural Chemists has used its efforts to that end. Some 

 success has followed the attempts to secure international cooperation 

 in testing the methods adopted by the Association and those in use in 

 foreign countries, but it has been impossible to get the work upon a 

 satisfactory basis or make it official in an international sense. The 

 establishment of a commission for this purpose will accordingly meet 

 with approval in this country, and if it fulfills its mission this will be an 

 important outcome of the congress. 



The experiment station congress was preceded by the International 

 Congress of Agricultural Instruction under the same presidenc}', with 

 M. Lagorsse as secretary. In many instances the same delegates rep- 

 resented their countries at both conferences. The topic given princi- 

 pal consideration at the Congress of Agricultural Instruction was the 

 teaching of agriculture in France, and the congress adopted resolutions 

 looking to the better organization and coordination of agricultural 

 education in the various sections of the countrj-. 



The two congresses were terminated by a banquet at Hotel Conti- 

 nental on the evening of June 21, at which about 150 persons were 

 present. Several excursions were arranged for the benefit and pleas- 

 ure of those in attendance at the congresses, and visits were paid to 

 the laboratory of the Compagnie generaJe des I'oitares, where extensive 

 experiments have for years been conducted upon the feeding of horses, 

 to the experimental fields of the Station ac/ronomique de VEst at Pare 

 des princes^ and to t\\e hutitid national agrono/aique^ where the various 

 laboratories were inspected. 



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