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culture has asked Congress for an additional appropriation of $25,000, so that he can 
have a force adequate to inspect all suspected cargoes. This national control of food 
products is a portion of the duties of the Bureau of Chemistry, under the general 
direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
This national inspection confirms the work of the different States in showing the 
great extent to which food adulteration is practiced, and the consequent necessity 
for enlarging its scope so as to include all suspected products. 
The national pure-food bill was passed by the House of Representatives, and by a 
close vote of 32 to 28 the Senate, ou March 3, 1903, determined to consider it, although 
it had passed a previous Senate in substantially the same form. 
The committee wishes to congratulate this association as well as the food manu- 
facturer and consumer upon the progress which has been made toward a national 
iaw which shall supplement the work of the States and upon the growth of public 
sentiment in this direction, and would respectfully recommend that the association 
continue its support of the cause. 
Very respectfully, \Y. A. Withers, 
H. J. Patterson, 
H. J. Wheeler, 
Wm. Frear, 
Commit tc< . 
The report was received and placed on file. 
Military Instruction in t Land-Grant Colleges. 
On call for the report of the committee on military instruction in land-grant 
colleges, (i. W. Atherton, of Pennsylvania (chairman), said: Mr. President, until I 
received the printed programme I had no intimation that this report would be called 
for or expected. I considered that the one duty which we had imposed upon us last 
year at Atlanta had been discharged by the circular report made to all the land-grant 
institutions. Stated briefly, the situation is this: An order (No. 94) has been issued 
by the War Department calling upon the colleges to increase the amount of military 
instruction in various ways. The order was issued to the officers detailed from 
the War Department, one purpose of the order evidently being to furnish a little 
more liberal training for the officers themselves. The detail which was raised by 
slow pressure from three years to four has now been reduced to two years, with the 
idea apparently (of course, I am not trying to interpret the motives of the Depart- 
ment) of giving as many officers as possible a chance at this detail, because the War 
Department distinctly recognizes that one of the most valuable branches of the train- 
ing of the younger officers is the course of detail at these institutions. Now, while 
that may be just to the officers, it is extremely hard on the institutions. Some of 
the officers, especially the younger officers, come to the college with an impression 
that they have been sent to take command of the institution. It requires some little 
time and something approaching a court-martial to get their ideas properly adjusted 
to their environment, although in the case of a sensible man there is really no great 
difficulty in this respect. Then in a little while another detail is made, and the 
process of adjustment is repeated, sometimes successfully and sometimes otherwise. 
The report I have to submit is briefly this: We all thought at Atlanta last year that 
it was necessary to get a good understanding with the War Department. The com- 
mittee was asked to call upon the officers of that Department to ascertain whether 
some modification of its order might not be made. This was done and it was found 
that the administration of the order was in the hands of the War College; that the 
order had been drafted in consultation with the Secretary of War; that it had been 
given upon his personal authority, so that he would be unwilling to modify it so far 
as its general terms were concerned; but that the details had been arranged in con- 
sultation with the officers who had been detailed, as well as the institutions concerned, 
and with the War College. The officers temporarily in charge of the War College 
did not feel authorized to make any modification in the letter or the interpretation 
