CONTENTS. 
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Officers and committees of the association 9 
List of delegates and visitors in attendance 11 
Constitution of the association 13 
Minutes of the general session 17 
Report of the executive committee 17 
Report of treasurer 20 
Report of bibliographer 21 
Farmers' institutes 28 
Appropriations for mining schools and experiment stations 30 . 
Report of the committee on indexing agricultural literature 30 
Report of the committee on uniform fertilizer and feeding-stuffs laws 31 
Vacancies on standing committees 33 
Report of the committee on graduate study at Washington 33 
Address of the president of the association 33 
Memorial address on President W. L. Broun 42 
Exhibit at St. Louis Exposition 44 
Designation of substations and trial stations 53 
Pure food legislation 53 
Military instruction in land-grant colleges 54, 86 
Amendment of the constitution 60 
Animal and plant breeding 61 
Methods of seed testing 62 
Experiment Station Record 62, 85 
History of experiment stations 62 
Illness of ex-President B. F. Koons „ 63 
Methods of teaching agriculture 63 
Graduate work in agriculture 77 
Cooperation between experiment stations and the Department of Agri- 
culture 78 
Rural engineering 78 
Uniform fertilizer and feeding-stuffs laws 84 
Plans for new buildings, Department of Agriculture 87 
Organization of Section on College "Work and Administration 87 
Organization of Section on Experiment Station Work 87 
Election of officers 87 
Place of next meeting of convention 87 
Resolution of thanks 88 
Minutes of the sections 89 
Section on College Work 89 
The mission of the land-grant colleges 89 
Section on Agriculture and Chemistry 95 
Paper on the present status of soil investigation, by C. G. Hopkins. . . 95 
Paper on differences between four Southern and four Northern soils 
and improvements in soil management which these differences sug- 
gest, by F. H. King 104 
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