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SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



July. 1922 



Resolutions 



The following resolutions were adopted 

 by the Convention: 



1 The Canadian Society of Technical 

 Agriculturists desires to bring to the atten- 

 tion of the Civil Service Commission of Can- 

 ada their view that the matter of the classi- 

 fication of technical agriculturists by the com- 

 mission, be given their early reconsideration 

 with a view to providing for agricultural 

 technicians a classification comparable to that 

 which has been recently provided for posi- 

 tions requiring equal academic and technical 

 training, experience and responsibilities in 

 the other scientific services of the Govern- 

 ment. 



Moved by Dean E. A. Howes, University 

 of Alberta, Edmonton. 



Seconded by J. G. Robertson, Live Stock 

 Commissioner, Regina. 



2. Whereas National Research Institutes 

 have been established in almost every im- 

 ])ortant agricultural and industrial country 

 in the world, including such countries as 

 Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, etc. 

 and whereas the early organisation of such 

 an institute is essential to the economic devel- 

 opment of the Dominion; 



Therefore be it resolved that the Cana- 

 dian Society of Technical Agriculturists, in 

 annual Convention assembled, places itself 

 on record as favouring the establishment of 

 such an institute. 



Moved by Dr. F. C. Harrison, Principal of 

 Macdonald College. Seconded by R. Sum- 

 merby, Prof, of Field Husbandry, Macdonald 

 College. 



3. The Canadian Society of Technical 

 Agriculturists desires to commend the policy 

 and practice, on the part of the federal and 

 provincial departments of agriculture, of em- 

 ploying in all technical positions com])etent 

 men who have had finished training in tech- 

 nical agriculture, and sincerel}' trust that 

 any departure from such principle and prac- 

 tice be guarded against carefully. 



Moved by H. Barton, Prof, of Animal 

 Husbandry, Macdonald College. Seconded 

 by F. N. Savoie, Secretary of the Department 

 of Agriculture, Quebec. 



4. Resolyed that the members of the 

 Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists 

 are strongly in accord with the maintenance 

 of a selective or restrictive advertising policy 

 for their official organ, as well as of the 

 present editorial policy of compromise. 



Moved by P. A. Boving, Prof, of Field 

 Husbandry. University of British Columbia. 

 Seconded by R. C. Treherne, Entomological 

 Branch, Ottawa. 



5. Resolved that a committee of one or 

 two members be appointed to obtain and em- 

 body in a report to the Committee on Edu- 

 cational Policies, the completest possible in- 

 formation concerning: 



(a) The exact system of organization of 

 agricultural colleges and schools in the 

 Dominion. 



(b) The exact system of organization by 

 means of which agricultural education is car- 

 ried on through any other bodies. 



(c) The ascertainable influence of par- 

 ticular features of an organization on the 

 functioning of the system of organization as 

 a whole. 



(d) Such other facts as may be necessary 

 to elucidate the theory and practice of these 

 systems of organization. 



Moved by R. S. Kennedy, Montreal Star, 

 Montreal. Seconded by F. L. Drayton, Bo- 

 tanical Division, Experimental Farm, Otta- 

 wa. 



6. Resolved that the General Secretary 

 be instructed to communicate the appreciation 

 of the members assembled in Convention, to 

 the following, for their valued assistance in 

 contributing to the success of these meetings : 



The Honourable the Minister of Agricul- 

 ture for Canada ; 



The Honourable the Minister of Agricul- 

 ture for Quebec; 



The Prineij^al of Macdonald College; 



The Principal of the Oka Agricultural In- 

 stitute; 



The lecturers; 



The I>ocal Reception Committees; 



The Press. 



