December 6, 1901.] 



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cent years the committee " found abundant 

 evidence that the attitude of this Associa- 

 tion and the work of this committee as its 

 representative have already borne good 

 fruit in stimulating and aiding the move- 

 ment for the specialization of agricultural 

 instruction in our colleges, the strengthen- 

 ing of agricultural faculties, and'the bettering 

 of the material equipment for agricultural 

 education." The committee announced its 

 intention to prepare and publish during 

 the coming year a report on the courses in 

 agronomy in our agricultural colleges and 

 the facilities for instruction in this subject. 



The Committee on Cooperative Work be- 

 tween the Stations and the Department of 

 Agriculture made the following recom- 

 mendations as supplementary to those em- 

 bodied in the report submitted at the last 

 convention : '' (1) When cooperation is 

 desired by the station it is deemed advisa- 

 ble that the proposal for such cooperation 

 be made to the department by the director 

 of the experiment station ; where on the 

 other hand the department desires the coop- 

 eration of the station, it is deemed advisable 

 that the proposal be made in the first in- 

 stance to the director rather than to mem- 

 bers of the staff. (2) While it is well un- 

 derstood that no financial obligations can 

 be undertaken beyond the end of the fiscal 

 year, yet it should be recognized that any 

 arrangement for joint experimentation 

 which requires some years to complete 

 creates a moral obligation upon both parties 

 to carry the work to a conclusion. (3) 

 Where a line of investigation has been in 

 progress in any State under the auspices of 

 either institution it is, as a rule, unwise for 

 the other party to undertake independ- 

 ently the same line of investigation at least 

 until after full consultation upon the sub- 

 ject." 



The committee was continued with the 

 addition of Professor B. T. Galloway of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The report of the Committee on Index- 

 ing Agricultural Literature called attention 

 to the fact that progress in this direction 

 could not be made by the Department of 

 Agriculture until its library was provided 

 with funds for this purpose. A paper on 

 'Agricultural College Libraries,' prepared 

 and presented by Miss Josephine A. Clark, 

 librarian of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and a member of this committee, completed 

 the report. This paper emphasized the great 

 importance of libraries as aids to the work 

 of investigation and instruction and pointed 

 out the necessity of systematic arrangement 

 and complete cataloguing of agricultural 

 libraries. Arrangements in progress by the 

 library of the Department for assisting ag- 

 ricultural colleges in classifying and cata- 

 loguing their libraries were explained. 



The report of the bibliographer, A. C. 

 True, noted the work of a bibliographical 

 character being done by the Department of 

 Agriculture, and enumerated with explana- 

 tory notes forty-four general and partial 

 bibliographies in lines relating to agricul- 

 ture issued during the past year. 



The general plan of the graduate summer 

 school of agriculture, as proposed by the 

 Ohio State University at the last conven- 

 tion and approved by the Executive Com- 

 mittee, was explained by President W. O. 

 Thompson of the University. It was 

 stated that sufiicient encouragement had 

 been received from the leaders of agricul- 

 tural education and research to warrant a 

 decision to hold the first session of the 

 school at the Ohio State University at Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, during the summer of 1902. 

 It was announced that Secretary Wilson 

 had cordially approved the plan for this 

 school, and that, acting under his advice. 

 Doctor A. C. True, director of the OfiBce of 

 Experiment Stations, had consented to act 

 as dean of the school. The Ohio State 

 University makes itself responsible for the 

 general management of the first session of 



