Besides the official delegates we have this day with us the chief of a department 

 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Warum, and the Secretary of the Ministry of 

 Agriculture, Mr. Stahlschmidt, and some of the memhers of the State Seed Testing 

 Board. On this board are two expert scientists, the chairman. Professor Dr. W. Johannsen, 

 who has been a member the 35 years the board has existed, and the director of the State 

 Experiment Station in Tystofte, Mr. E. Lindhard, two farmers and one substitute, the 

 president of the Koyal Danish Agricultural Society, Mr. Chr. Sonne, Mr. Hauch, Member 

 of the Upper House, and Mr. Selchau Hansen, and also two seed-dealers with one 

 subsitute, Mr. G-. Hage, Mr. A. Hofiding and the chairman of the Association of the Danish 

 Seed Dealers, Mr. K. Stallknecht. 



Mrs. F. Kolpin Eavn and Miss I. Fogh are present to report the English and 

 German discussions respectively. All we Danes will do everything in our power to assist 

 our honored guests in every way possible. 



After visiting the laboratories and various departments of the State Seed Testing 

 Station the delegates are invited to take luncheon here, as guests of the institution. 



On the following days the meetings will be held in the Assembly Hall of the Agri- 

 cultural Board, Tester Bouvelard 4, near Raadhusplads, as that locality is more central 

 and there is better room. 



With the permission of Sir Lawrence Weaver and Mr. Saunders the meeting 

 to-morrow afternoon will -be open to representatives from the Association of the Danish 

 Seed Dealers, whose guests we are to be at supper to-morrow evening at 7 o'clock at 

 Nimbs. Those who expect to be present will kindly sign their names on this list. 



On Wednesday, June 8, at 1:30 sharp, a large sight-seeing automobile will be waiting 

 ill front of the entrance to the hall, V. Boulevard 4. We will be driven to Lyngby to 

 see the control field of the Seed Testing Station and the Experiment Station there, the 

 Agricultural Museum and other matters of interest, and from there to Skodshorg where 

 the usual table d'hSte will be served. Those desiring to participate in this excursion also 

 are requested to sign their names on the accompanying list. We hope >that all the 

 delegates wiU be able to be present at the dinner given June 9, by the Minister of 

 AgTiculture, Mr. Th. Madsen-Mygdal. We request that each delegate who expects to 

 attend, will sign his name on the list. Those wishing to participate in the excursion to 

 the Experiment Station at Tystofte on June 11., are requested to sign their names on the 

 sapie list. The expenses for this excursion will amount to about 40 Kr. per head. 



The object of this conference is to become acquainted with each other and with the 

 methods used at our respective institutions and primarily to attempt to establish cooperation 

 between seed-testLag stations in those countries wishing such cooperation established. 

 Methods were discussed at the two former congresses, but no positive results were attained. 

 However we have from the last conference the measure proposed by Professor Schribaux 

 of Paris and Director v. D eg en of Budapest. This will be taken up for discussion and, 

 as may be seen from the plan for our meetings, a copy of which has been sent to each 

 delegate at his hotel, on the last day of the congress, Hofrat v. Degen and Director 

 Bussard, acting for Professor Schribaux, will again present these measures. I trust 

 that other delegates will have plans for future cooperation to propose. 



in January this year 25 samples of seed of the more important clover, grass and 

 root varieties were sent to different seed-testing stations with the request that they analyse 

 the samples and send their results to us. 23 have thus far responded. The figures 

 showing the purity, the germination-speed and -power and content of pure viable seed, 

 but not real the value found, are given on the lists sent to each delegate. The names of the 

 institutions which have made the tests are not given, but each is designated by an initial. 

 We hope that each of the gentlemen present who is director of an institution which has 

 sent in results of their tests, has received at his hotel a proof copy of the list in which 

 the results found by his institution are underscored. These results are worth careful 

 study. Fortunately they show that as a whole the results found by the seed testing 



