560 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Professor Whitney, chief of the Bureau of Soil Analysis, 

 Department of Agriculture, briefly addressed the Congress, 

 expressing the regret of the Secretary of Agriculture that he 

 could not be present, and also stated very interesting facts 

 in regard to tobacco culture and cure. 



Adjourned until 9 a.m. Friday. 



Friday, December 9, the Congress was called to order at 

 9 a.m., Mr. Funk of Illinois in the chair. 



Moved by Mr. Stout of Iowa, that Mr. Candage of Mas- 

 sachusetts be added to the executive committee ; and by the 

 same, that Mr. Avery of Massachusetts be assistant treas- 

 urer, which were adopted. 



The committee to engross and present resolutions to the 

 President of the United States and Speaker of the House of 

 Representatives was announced as follows : Messrs. Clayton 

 of Iowa, Candage of Massachusetts, Powell of Pennsylvania, 

 Purse of Georgia and Evans of Colorado. 



Motion was made and carried that the secretary mail five 

 copies of the annual report to each governor of the various 

 States, at least twenty copies to the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and one copy to each registered delegate of this 

 meeting. 



Mr. Candage of Massachusetts addressed the Congress on 

 "An American mail service in American steamships." 



The Congress then adjourned, subject to the call of the 

 president. 



The members of the Congress, and their ladies, to the 

 number of three hundred and fifty, took a special train in the 

 afternoon for Houston, two hundred and eighty-eight miles 

 distant, where they arrived past midnight, and there spent 

 the remainder of the night and the next day. The citizens 

 of Houston did all in their power, through well-appointed 

 committees, to provide for the pleasure and comfort of their 

 guests. 



Saturday, December 10, at evening, left Houston for Gal- 

 veston, a distance of fifty-three miles, where the delegates 

 spent the night and the next day, Sunday. They were taken 

 around the harbor and out to the breakwaters in a tug and 

 barge, looked over the town, which is a pleasant one, and at 

 evening returned to Houston and spent the night. 



