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was held on Wednesday evening at which short 

 speeches were made by Dr. R. M. Yerkes and 

 Dr. H. Addington Bruce. 



The vice-president of the section for next 

 year's meeting, at Boston, is Professor Ray- 

 mond Dodge, and the new section committee- 

 man is Dr. Yerkes. 



Frank N. Feeeman 

 Secretary, Section I 



SECTION O— AGRICULTURE AND ASSO- 

 CIATED SOCIETIES 



Section met on Wednesday afternoon, 

 December 28, 1921, with six associated socie- 

 ties. The program of the meeting consisted of 

 a symposium on "The Cooperation of Canada 

 and the United States in the Field of Agricul- 

 ture." Dr. E. W. Allen, of Washington, de- 

 livered the retiring vice-presidential address on 

 "The Method of Science in Agriculture," call- 

 ing attention to the importance of the utiliza- 

 tion of the most accurate scientific methods in 

 agricultural investigations, pointing out ways 

 in which certain lines of study now under way 

 may be made more comprehensive and urging 

 that attention be given constantly to the im- 

 provement of methods and that the interpreta- 

 ion of all results be based more directly upon 

 the methods employed in the work. 



Following the vice-presidential address, the 

 following papers were read : 



Marketing Conditions in Canada: Archie 

 Leitch, Ontario Agricultural College, Guelpli, 

 Canada. 



Organisation for research in the United States : 

 L. R. Jones, chairman, Division of Biology and 

 Agriculture, National Research Council. 



Cooperation in research: J. H. Grisdale, dep- 

 uty minister of agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. 



Some economic aspects of the ivheat situation : 

 (Illustrated with lantern slides) : Carleton R. 

 Ball, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, 

 D..C. 



Sistory and development of the Canadian Soci- 

 ety of Technical Agronomists: F. H. Grindlet, 

 Gardenvale, P. Q., Canada. 



The attendance at the meeting was very 

 gratifying, over 50 persons being present. The 

 addresses which were given were extremely 

 interesting, and each was followed by consid- 

 erable discussion. Particular interest was evi- 



denced in the suggestions regarding organized 

 research and greater cooperation between the 

 United States and Canada in the development 

 of research activities. 



At the business session of the section, R. W. 

 Thatcher, of the New York Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Geneva, N. Y., was elected 

 vice-president, and E. W Allen, of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, was elected a member of the section 

 committee, his term of office to end January 1, 

 1926. 



At the conclusion of the meeting a dinner 

 was held at Queen's Hall; a large nmnber of 

 the members of the section were in dttendanee. 

 This proved to be a most enjoyable occasion, 

 and it is hoped that a dinner for Section 

 and all associated societies may be arranged 

 at subsequent meetings of the association. 



The meeting and dinner of Section O were 

 highly successful in every way, and all those 

 in attendance were enthusiastically in favor of 

 having similar arrangements made for later 

 meetings. The associated societies all have 

 their programs; it is conceded that Section 

 should give a more general, somewhat intro- 

 ductory, program and one which will be of 

 interest to all agricultural organizations. This 

 feature of the program at Toronto was par- 

 ticularly successful, the dinner being an inno- 

 vation which everyone felt had added materially 

 to the success of the meeting. 



The American Society of Agronomy. — This 

 society held a meeting on Thursday, December 

 29, 1921, at which a general program of agro- 

 nomic interest was prepared. Ten scientific 

 contributions were presented; each was fol- 

 lowed by considerable discussion. About 40 

 agronomists from Canada and the United 

 States were in attendance, and the meeting was 

 a most successful one in every way. Matters 

 of general interest to both crops and soils men 

 were discussed, and the exchange of ideas be- 

 tween the Canadian and United States inves- 

 tigators was particularly valuable. Since this 

 was not the annual meeting of the society, no 

 business was transacted. Resolutions were 

 adopted, however, urging the continuation of 

 the publication of the Experiment Station 

 Record and the Journal of Agricultural Be- 



