.Tune, 1921. 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE 



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Amendments to Constitution and By-Laws 



Some of the amendments madia to the Constitution 

 and Bylaws at the recent Convention were quite im- 

 portant, while others were of comparatively minor im- 

 portance. At tlie present time it is not possible to print 

 a coiiiplctely revised constitution, but tlie am'Midments 

 made arc given here for the information of the mem- 

 bers, with whatever explanation appears to be neces- 

 sary. * 



Associate Members. Article 3 of tlie Constitution 

 was revised to make provision for associate members 

 and now reads in part as follows: 



"Membership: There shall be three classes of mem- 

 bers, regular, associate and honorary. 



1. A regular member must be (a) a graduate in agri- 

 culture from a university or college of recognized 

 standing, (b) A graduate of a university or college 

 who is engaged primarily in agricultural research, ad- 

 ministration, education, extension work, publicity, ex- 

 perimental problems, or other forms of allied woi-k of 

 a scientific or managerial nature or (c) a non-graduate 

 who is engaged primarily in agricultural research, ad- 

 ministration, ledueation, extension work, publicity or 

 experimental probletns and be accepted as provided for 

 in the by-laws. 



2. Associate membership shall be open to those 'en- 

 gaged primarily in agricultural research, administra- 

 tion, education, extension work, publicity or experi- 

 mental problems, who are not at the time eligible for 

 regular membership, and to the undergraduates of agri- 

 cidtural colleges. Members of tbis class must be ac- 

 cepted by the Dominion Exiecutive. They shall have no 

 voting powers. " 



A slight change M'as made in Article 7 of the Con- 

 stitution, leaving it optional for each Convention to 

 fix the ])lace of meeting for thei next convention, or to 

 delegate that duty to the Dominion Executive. 



Quite a number of changes were mada in the by-laws 

 on the recommendation of the Dominion Executive 

 Committee. These wieire : 



(a) That application for membership may be made 

 either to the local secretary or the General secretary 

 instead of only to the local secretary (Art. I, CI, 2.) 



(b) That fees may be payable to either local secretar.v 

 or general secretary, instead of only to the general 

 secretary, (Art. 5.) 



(c) That the' Annual Convention may be held at any 

 time after May 31st of each year at the discretion of 

 the Dominion Executive Committee, instead of having 

 to be held within 21 davs after Mav 31st. (Art. 4, 

 CI, I.) 



(d) That thie animal membership fee shall be re- 

 tained at $10 for all classes of members, but that $2 of 

 this amount .shall go to the local branches, (Art. 5.) 



It was made (juite plain from the financial s,tatement 

 for the past year, and the expenses to be incurred during 

 the coming year, that no material reduction in fee was 

 |)ossil)le. It was considered that a 20 per oent reduc- 

 tion shodld be made in the fee which was paid to the 

 central office, hut that the local branches should have 

 th'e benefit of the amount thus saved. This arrange- 

 ment will be tried during the present year, and it is 

 expected that the local branches will be considerably 

 more activiei 



(e) That the Publications Committee (Art. S, Cl.I. 1'. 

 '■e" and Art. 8, CI. 4. P. "c" should be discontinued, 

 and an editorial board substituted. The personnel. 



dallies and method of iclection of this Board are thus 

 defined : 



"An Editorial Board shall be appointed by the Dom- 

 inion Executive which shall consist of two members 

 from each division of agriculture, one member to retire 

 each year from each ilivision, the retiring mcinbei- to 

 be eligible for re-appointni'ent. 



"The duties of the Editorial Board shall be to assist 

 the editor of the official organ of the society in review- 

 ing articles submitted for publication anil in passing 

 upon the merits of the same, and to also assist in col- 

 lecting articles suitable for publication." (New Ar- 

 ticle 9.) 



(f) That the Dominion Executive may meet when 

 and where they may decide, instead of at least twice 

 yearly. (Art. 4, CI, 6.) 



(g) That the annual election ballot should call for 

 votes for two vice presidents instead of a first and a 

 second vice-president. (Art. 7, CI, I). Further pro- 

 vision was made that "when the ballots for the annual 

 election of officers are being counted, if the first vice- 

 president elected be English-speaking, only the 

 French speaking candidates shall be considered for the 

 position of second vicc-i)resident and vice- versa " 

 (Art. 7, New CI, 3.) 



■ This clause was introduced to insure that at least 

 one of the four named officers of the society should be 

 a P^rench speaking member. 



Members who have copies of the constitution and by- 

 laws (page 224 of last issue) sliould make the changes 

 indicated above. An effort will be mad'e to have re- 

 vised copies available at an early date. 



CORRECTING AN ERROR. 



On page 213 of the last is.sue, a line was oniilt il 

 from the first paragi-aph of the article by Miss Mar- 

 garet Newton, entitled "A Preliminary Note on the 

 Occurrence of Biologic Forms of Wheat Stem Rust in 

 Western Canada". 



The opening paragraph should read as follows: 

 "Until 1916 only one biologic form of stem rust was 

 known to occur on w*heat. During that year a form 

 of stem rust was collected by Stakman and PiennMsel 

 in the Palou.se district of Washington and Idaho to 

 which certain varieties of wlicat were almost immune, 

 althoiig,)! these .same varieties were readily su.sccptibic 

 to a .stem rust collected at St. Paul, Minnesota. This 

 susceptibility and immunity of the same variety of 

 wheat in different localities could only be explained 

 by assuming that at least two biologic forms of the 

 rust fungus mu.st be present, and that each ftirm conld 

 affect only certain wheats." 



AGRICULTURE AND CAPITAL. 



The views expre.s,sed in the article published on i)age 

 267 of this issue, may not be accepted by all our readers 

 as being sound in principle. They do, however, repres- 

 ent an original thought and for that reason merit ex- 

 pre.ssion in print. .Many of our readers must have 

 opinions of their own in regard to the important ques- 

 tion raised in Mr. Armstrong's article, and its public- 

 ation may therefore be expected to result in interest- 

 ing discussion or comment. 



