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J. H. Sheppero, of North Dakota. In connection with this report T wish to state 
that we have been able to get a great deal of very intelligent help from the linns of 
the country dealing in fanning implements and machines. With us, the agents for 
such machines now realize, although they did not do so at first, that it will not do for 
them to pursue any narrow policy; that it is necessary for them to discuss the merits 
of these various machines with us on general principles and on a broad basis rather 
than to support in any narrow way any particular make of machine. 
During the winter we have found that our work fitted in very well with the 
machine and implement business, because during that season their most expert men 
were at liberty; and the different firms seemed to be very glad to send us a very high 
class of men to handle and explain the machines sent by them, and we found advan- 
tage in discussing with these men the adaptation of their machines to our different 
soil and crop conditions. 
We are fortunately located at Fargo, because this city ranks second or third in the 
United States in the amount of farm-implement business. We are thus enabled to 
have a good and varied stock of implements presented for our inspection. After the 
implement men understood what we were trying to accomplish there was no trouble 
in getting machines, or parts of machines, or anything they could furnish us to help out 
in our work. The only trouble sometimes was in finding available space for the 
proper exhibition of the different implements or machines. 
C. F. Curtiss, of Iowa. The report of this committee is certainly very comprehensive, 
valuable, and timely. It will, I think, be of great service to our different institutions 
throughout the country. It has been customary heretofore to publish the reports of 
the committee on methods of teaching agriculture in circular form. I trust that policy 
will be continued. I merely wish to suggest that this report be either included in 
full in the regular report of our proceedings, or that it be published as a separate 
circular, in which form it might go to the colleges in larger numbers and more con- 
venient form than if it were simply a part of the regular proceedings of the convention. 
B. C. Buffum, of Wyoming. I think this matter is one of very great importance to 
many of our institutions, and I should be glad to see this association express its 
sympathy with this work and its interest in it, I therefore move that it is the sense 
of this association that we approve Secretary Wilson's efforts to extend the work 
along the lines of agricultural engineering in the United States Department of Agri- 
culture and to cooperate with the stations in such work. 
The motion was agreed to. 
Uniform Fertilizer and Feeding-Stuffs Laws. 
H. J. Wheeler, of Rhode Island. The report of the committee on this subject 
was presented to the association (p. 31) and subsequently referred to the Section on 
Agriculture and Chemistry. That section adopted sections 1 to (i of the report relating 
to uniformity in the laws in relation to feeding stuffs in the several States and in 
regard to making such legislation operative. It is desirable that the association as a 
whole should now act upon these recommendations. They have already been read, 
so that perhaps it is unnecessary to read them again. 
The amendments agreed upon in the section are as follows: 
In the second paragraph of the report insert "peas " after " broom corn." 
At the end of the fourth paragraph add "and a maximum of liber which shall 
not be exceeded." 
In the sixth paragraph, after the words "determinations of," insert "crude fiber." 
In the sixth paragraph strike out all after "provisions" in the second line. 
On objection being raised to the first recommendation of the committee regarding 
the method of defraying the expenses of inspection, the report was accepted as a 
report of the section on agriculture and chemistry, with the understanding that the 
matter is to be brought up for the action of the association at the next convention. 
