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able interest by his paper on plants poison- 
ous to stock, a subject which is receiving 
attention at several of the Western sta- 
tions. 
In the section on Horticulture and Botany 
Mr. Alexander Cran, quarantine officer of 
the California State Board of Horticulture, 
read a paper on the inspection of nursery 
stock and orchards, which was followed by 
considerable discussion of the methods 
used in this work. Professor A. J. Mc- 
Clatchie, of Arizona, described the methods 
of irrigation used in orchards. Papers on 
‘Seed Testing,’ by A. J. Pieters, of the 
Division of Botany, Department of Agri- 
culture, and the ‘Climatology of Horticul- 
ture,’ by Professor E. J. Wickson, were read 
before the general session of the Associa- 
tion on the recommendation of the section. 
The latter was a suggestive paper expres- 
sing a hope that the relation of climate to- 
the production of horticultural plants might 
ere long receive serious attention in this 
country. 
The increasing importance of cooperation 
between the Department of Agriculture and 
the experiment stations attracted the at- 
tention of the Association, and a committee 
was appointed to consider the basis and 
methods of such cooperation and report at 
the next meeting. 
The Executive Committee was instructed 
to endeavor to secure some arrangement by 
which public documents might be more 
promptly and satisfactorily delivered to the 
libraries of the institutions entitled to re- 
ceive them, and also to obtain a place on the 
program of the next meeting of the National 
Education Association for a paper on the 
mission of the land-grant colleges in our 
American system of education. 
Much interest was manifested in the an- 
nouncement of the arrangement recently 
made by the Secretary of Agriculture with 
the Civil Service Commission under which 
it is proposed to admit a limited number of 
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the graduates of the land-grant colleges to 
the Department of Agriculture at a nominal 
salary as ‘scientific aids.’ Vacancies in 
the Committee on Graduate Study at 
Washington were filled, and it is expected 
that this committee will continue to pro- 
mote the plans of the Association for the 
establishment of a bureau of graduate study 
at the National capital. 
The following officers of the Association 
for the ensuing year were elected : 
President, J. E. Stubbs, of the University 
of Nevada; Vice-Presidents, E. W. Hil- 
gard, of the University of California ; J. M. 
Stone, of the Agricultural College of Missis- 
sippi; E. E. Smiley, of the University of 
Wyoming; M. H. Buckham, of the Uni- 
versity of Vermont, and M. A. Scovell, of 
the Experiment Station of Kentucky ; Sec- 
retary-Treasurer, E. B. Voorhees, of the 
Experiment Station of New Jersey ; Bibliog- 
rapher, A. C. True, of the Department of 
Agriculture. Executive Committee, H. H. 
Goodell, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 
College; W. M. Liggett, of the Universiity 
of Minnesota; J. H. Washburn, of the Ag- 
ricultural and Mechanical College of Rhode 
Island, and Alexis Cope, of the University 
of Ohio. 
Officers of Sections: College Work—J. 
K. Patterson, of Kentucky, Chairman; A. 
W. Harris, of Maine, Secretary. Agricul- 
ture and Chemistry—L. G. Carpenter, of 
Colorado, Chairman; C. D. Woods, of 
Maine, Secretary. Horticulture and Bot- 
any—L. A. Beach,of New York, Chairman ;. 
P. H. Rolfs, of South Carolina, Secretary. 
Mechanic Arts—C. S. Markland, of New 
Hampshire, Chairman ; F. P. Anderson, of 
Kentucky, Secretary. 
The day succeeding the adjournment of 
the convention was spent in visiting the 
University of California, and the following 
week was occupied in excursions to the 
principal agricultural and horticultural sec- 
tions of central California. These excur- 
