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sheep industry of the American countries; Government control of 

 grazing on public lands; the effect of animal diseases and para- 

 sites their control and eradication; are uniform regulations 

 feasible among the different American countries for the prevention 

 of the introduction and dissemination of diseases of animals? 



CONSERVATION OF THE PLANT INDUSTRY. 



Experiment - station work in the American countries; subtropical and 

 tropical agriculture in the Americas; plant introduction; Pan 

 American cooperation in plant quarantine. 



MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 



The principles and practice of cooperation; extent and possibilities of 

 cooperation; standardization of agricultural products; uniform 

 grades and standard packages; transportation of perishable com- 

 modities; car- lot distribution; the marketing of farm mortgage 

 loans; financing cooperative marketing associations; the extension 

 of markets; the development of a market news sendee; the 

 advisability of college courses in marketing and distribution; pro- 

 visioning municipal populations; the Panama Canal the effect of 

 its opening upon the traffic in agricultural products and its 

 effective use in the distribution of products in general. 



SECTION IV. 



EDUCATION. 



The establishment, present status and future development of public and 

 private education as carried on in the Republics of the Western 

 Hemisphere; similarity, essential differences and the interrelation 

 of the various types and grades of education among the con- 

 stituent members of the Pan American Union; the possibility of 

 Pan American correlation of subjects and standardization in sub- 

 ject and equipment which would permit interchange of professors 

 and students between the American Republics ; the emphasis in 

 educational institutions upon subjects and methods of pre- 

 sentation of the same in order to encourage a Pan American 

 point of view, Pan American cooperation and ideals of education ; 

 public and private support, administration and supervision, 

 problems and purpose of the different grades of education, par- 

 ticularly in the elementary and secondary periods; coeducation 

 and its problems and possibilities; the function, support and 

 control of special schools established for the training of teachers 

 and higher efficiency in the trades, industries, commerce, agri- 

 culture, and the technical and learned professions. 



