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Communication from National Association of State Universities. 
The chairmaD of the exeeutiye committee read the following communication 
from the National Association of state Universites: 
The National Association of State Universities ID annual meeting assembled 
sends fraternal greetings to the Association of American Agricultural Colleges 
and Experiment Stations, and begs to express its friendly sentiment and its 
coi-dial good wishes for a pleasant and profitable session, and to venture the 
hope that these two associations through their annual meetings may he greatly 
instrumental in promoting the cause of the highest and the higher liberal pro- 
fessional and technical education in the United States. 
G. E. MacLean, President. 
Georoe E. Fellows, Secretary. 
Uniform Fertilizer and Feeding Stuff Legislation. 
H. J. Wheeler, chairman, presented the following report of the committee on 
this subject: 
In the course of the past year your committee, as heretofore, has been in cor- 
respondence with parties in several States who were interested in the passage 
of new fertilizer laws or in the amendment of existing ones. 
Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah have not 
yet felt the necessity of legislation in this line. In Colorado and Arkansas 
recent attempts to pass such laws have been defeated. The following reports 
have been received from some of the other States: 
Ex-Director Huston, of Indiana, reports that the existence of the recommenda- 
tions of this association was of much assistance in connection with steps taken 
to amend the old fertilizer law in that State. The law as enacted was made to 
correspond to the recommendations in certain particulars, and the other points 
were practically all left to the discretion of the executive officer, thus rendering 
it possible to make rules in accordance with the recommendations. 
Professor Ladd, of North Dakota, reports that at the last session of the legis- 
lature in that State a fertilizer law was enacted and that the bill was drawn 
in accordance with the recommendations of this association, which, he says, were 
very helpful in the preparation of the bill " and in securing the necessary legis- 
lative action thereon." 
R. E. Rose, State chemist, Tallahassee, Fla., writes that the law in that State 
has recently been amended to conform, in so far as possible, with the recom- 
mendations concerning uniformity. He adds that the recommendations were 
of material service. 
Prof. F. B. Mumford, of Missouri, reports that the law in that State has been 
amended recently and that the recommendations were of " much assistance." 
President McBryde, of Virginia, reported, July 4, 1903. that changes in the law 
in that State were then being considered and that amendments in the line of 
the recommendations were being urged. In conclusion he says : " It follows, 
therefore, that your recommendations will be helpful in securing the legislation 
needed." 
Director Armsby reports that the recently amended law of Pennsylvania con- 
forms very largely in substance to the recommendations. 
Director Soule, of Tennessee, states that a new law was passed in that State 
in April, 1903. The law was drawn with the object of making it conform with 
the recommendations of the associations, but a few amendments were made 
not in harmony therewith which it is believed weakened the law. He adds 
that it is hoped later to secure such amendments as will make the law conform 
to the original draft, and that " had it not been for the existence of the recom- 
mendations it would probably not have been possible to secure the passage of 
the present law." 
Director J. F. Duggar, of Alabama, writes, under date of July 7, that in that 
State " the old law has been replaced this year by a new one which embodies 
the recommendations of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 
Experiment Stations and of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists," 
and that " the recommendations alluded to have had much weight in securing 
the revision of legislation along this line." 
After careful consideration of the subject your committee submits the fol- 
lowing recommendations regarding laws regulating the sale of feeding stuffs : 
