REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COM- 

 MITTEE, TWELFTH CONVENTION, 1 



1898 



To your executive committee were intrusted a number 

 of very important measures vitally affecting the interests 

 of the Association. All these have received careful consider- 

 ation, and such action has been taken as the circumstances 

 seemed to warrant. 



Very early in the year a letter was received from the 

 chairman of the committee on seed-testing, appointed 

 at the 1896 convention, stating that he had been unable to 

 be present when the committee made its report in 1897, 

 and that he had sent a letter asking for the continuance of 

 the committee for another year, in order that it might de- 

 termine practically the values of the apparatus and methods 

 proposed rather than leave it to the seed-dealers. The let- 

 ter arrived too late for action, and he now asked the execu- 

 tive committee to grant such authority. The matter being 

 an important one and requiring immediate action, your 

 committee, under the fourth article of the section relating 

 to officers, authorized by written vote the continuance of 

 the said committee for another year. 



The question of securing necessary legislation for the sale 

 of uniforms, either made up or the cloth for the same, at 

 government prices, to the cadets of the different colleges, 

 was taken before the Military Committee of the House at 



1 Of the Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. 



