460 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Resolved, That we endorse and commend the work of the office of 

 experiment stations of the Department of Agriculture, in promoting 

 the drainage of farm lands by furnishing advice upon intricate prob- 

 lems which often confront us. and by preparing and disseminating the 

 results of drainage investigations, and ask that this work be enlarged 

 and extended; 



Resolved, That we appreciate and heartily endorse the work now 

 being done by the Iowa State College and the State Experiment Station 

 for the advancement of agricultural knowledge along practical lines. 

 W. S. Kelley, Harrison county, Iowa, 

 H. HiNMAx, Wright county, Iowa. 

 C. G. Elliott, Washington. D. C, 



Committee. 



The report of the committee was unanimously adopted and a vote 

 of thanks extended to the faculty of the Iowa State College and the 

 people of Ames for courtesies extended during the convention. 



Chairman Stevenson was empowered by the convention to appoint 

 an executive committee. He appointed the following named persons 

 on this committee: Mr. Clarence Baker, Appanoose county; Mr. J. T. 

 Brooks. Hedrick, Iowa; Mr. G. D. McNabb, Garner, Iowa. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE IOWA STATE DRAINAGE ASSOCIATION. 



A motion was now made, seconded and carried, that this conven- 

 tion form a permanent organization that shall be known as the Iowa 

 State Drainage Association. 



Prof. D. A. Kent of Jewel Junction was elected president of the 

 new drainage association; Prof. W. H. Stevenson, department of soils, 

 Iowa State College, was made secretary and treasurer and the officers 

 were empowered to appoint one vice president from each county in the 

 State. 



By motion the membership fee was fixed at one dollar. 



The convention adjourned to meet at 1:30 p.m. in the College Chapel. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, JANUARY 16tH, 1:30 P..M. 



At the opening of the afternoon session Mr. E. B. Howard of Ames. 

 Iowa, addressed the convention upon the subject, "Where Will the 

 Drainage Water Go? What Damage Will it Do?" He spoke as follows: 



"The water discharged from ten or one hundred tile lines, or one 

 or ten large drainage ditches, you all agree will drain the surface water 

 many times faster than Nature would do it. Nature held it in mossy 

 sloughs and ponds until a large portion of it was absorbed by the heated 

 atmosphere of dry summers. 



'"Only a few days ago Representative Chassell was reported in the Des 

 Moines press as saying, we would now have more frequent overflows be- 

 cause of the tile lines already laid. Then how much more if all the new 

 ones you predict? 



