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ornamental trees and shrubs with the view of encouraging the adornment of 
homes and making: them more attractive. 
Much information has been given as to the besl remedies for the destruction 
of noxious insects and for resisting the attacks of fungns diseases from which 
grain, fruit, and other crops suffer so much. The subject of noxious weeds has 
also been investigated and the best measures pointed out for their subjugation. 
In the chemical division Investigations have been conducted on many lines 
bearing on the agricultural interests of the country and the help thus rendered 
to fanners has been greatly appreciated. 
Much of the practical information gained each year by the lines of experi- 
ments conducted is given to the farmers in the annual reports and bulletins 
Issued. Many thousand farmers also visit the farms each year. The officers of 
all the farms also attend meetings of farmers held in different parts of the 
country, where opportunities are afforded for giving fuller explanations con- 
cerning all branches of the work in progress. 
In the meantime tlie upbuilding of agriculture has progressed rapidly and 
the occupation of farming has been elevated in the eyes of the community. It 
is no longer looked upon as a drudgery where the dull and slow-going may eke 
out a laborious existence ; it is now recognized as a suitable field for the exer- 
cise of the higher intelligence of more cultivated minds, as a calling requiring 
much skill to conduct it successfully. 
While the demands of the home market for food products are immensely 
greater than they were twenty years ago. the export of farm products has 
greatly increased. In 18S4 the total export of wheat and flour from Canada was 
about a million dollars ; in 1903 it was over 29 millions. The export of cheese, 
which at that time was about 7 millions, has increased to over 24 millions. 
The export of pork, bacon, and hams has run up in the same time from about 
half a million to over 16 million dollars. The exports of fat cattle have more 
than doubled and large increases have been made in almost every other line. 
There are still opportunities for improvement. Nowhere have we reached a 
stage approaching perfection, and I know of no pursuit more noble than that 
which is so fully represented at this convention, that of striving to add to the 
happiness of mankind by helping the tillers of the soil by precept and experi- 
ment to improve their condition, thus making the earth to yield more bounti- 
fully, producing food products in larger quantity and of better quality for sus- 
taining the teeming millions now occupying the surface of our globe. 
The programme committee for the college section not having been selected by 
that section the chairman and the secretary were authorized to fill the committee 
by the selection of one additional member to act with themselves. 
On motion of E. B. Voorhees, of New Jersey, the annual dues of each college 
and station constituting the association were hxed at $15 for the year 1904-5. 
Indexing Agricultural Literature. 
E. W. Allen, of the Department of Agriculture. In the report of the com- 
mittee on indexing agricultural literature, which was read by Professor Hays 
(see p. 32). reference was made to the indexing of periodical literature relating 
to agricultural science. This work was undertaken at the instigation of the 
experiment stations, there having been considerable demand for an index to 
scientific literature not covered by any indexes we now have. The current work 
of the periodicals is, as you know, reviewed in the Experiment Station Record, 
and our indexes at the end of a year or end of the period cover that current 
work and make it easily accessible. In order that the looking up of work that 
has been done in the past on particular subjects might be simplified, Miss Clark, 
the Librarian of the Department, has undertaken, at the request of this com- 
mittee, to prepare an index of the scientific periodicals published in Europe and 
in this country relating to agricultural science and has secured an additional 
appropriation from Congress in order that she might carry on this work with 
less interference. She has now assigned a regular cataloguer to the work and 
is going forward systematically. As the report referred to stated, arrangements 
have been made with the Library of Congress to print these cards. The printing 
