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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS— BULLETIN NO. 142. 
A. C. TRUE, Director. 
PROCEEDINGS 
SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
OF THE ASSOCIATION OF 
American Agricultural Colleges aud Experiment Stations 
HELD AT 
WASHINGTON, 13. C, 
NOVEMBER 17-19, 1903. 
EDITED BY 
A. C. TRUE and W. H. BEAL, for the Office of Experiment Stations, 
AND 
H. C. WHITE, for the Executive Committee of the Association. 
WASHINGTON: 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFPIC 
1904. 
