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SECTION ON MECHANIC ARTS. 
No sessions of this section were held. 
SECTION ON EXPERIMENT STATION WORK. 
Two meetings of this section organized under the amended constitution were held 
November 18 and 19, 1903. 
The section was called to order by the secretary of the association and effected an 
organization by the election of E. B. Voorhees as temporary chairman, and H. P. 
Arinsby as temporary secretary. 
On motion of C. D. "Woods, it was voted that a committee of five be appointed by 
the chair to recommend to the section what officers, if any, be elected in addition to 
those provided for in the constitution, and to present nominations for all officers, 
including the two members of the executive committee. The chair appointed as this 
committee C. D. Woods, of Maine; H. J. Patterson, of Maryland; W. M. Liggett, of 
Minnesota; H. T. French, of Idaho, and R. J. Redding, of Georgia. 
The following resolution, offered by W. H. Jordan, of New York, was unanimously 
adopted : 
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chairman to report to this 
section, during the present session of the association, recommendations for the organi- 
zation of the work of this section. 
The chairman appointed as such committee H. P. Armsby, of Pennsylvania; C. F. 
Curtiss, of Iowa; C. E. Thorne, of Ohio; J. L. Hills, of Vermont, and B. W. Kilgore, 
of North Carolina. 
The committee appointed to consider the question of officers for the section 
reported, recommending that the officers consist of a chairman, a secretary, and a 
standing committee of three on programme, of which the secretary of the section 
shall be ex-officio chairman. This report was adopted. 
The same committee also reported the following nominations: 
For members of the executive committee, W. H. Jordan, of New York, and C. F. 
Curtiss, of Iowa. 
For chairman of the section, E. H. Jenkins, of Connecticut. 
For secretary of the section, M. A. Scovell, of Kentucky. 
For committee on programme, the secretary ex-officio, J. H. Shepperd, of North 
Dakota, and B. W. Kilgore, of North Carolina. 
Upon motion the secretary of the section was authorized to cast the ballot of the 
section for these nominations, which was done, and they were declared duly elected. 
The committee appointed to consider the organization of the work of the section 
reported as follows: 
Your committee has been directed to report recommendations for the organization 
of the work of this section. A necessary preliminary to this is a clear conception of 
what that work is. The newly adopted constitution broadly designates the section 
as the "Section on Experiment Station Work." Your committee interprets this 
phraseology to mean, in the first place, that it is the function of this section to con- 
sider all phases of station activity, including on the one hand those administrative 
questions which concern the relations of the station to the public, to the institution 
of which it forms a part, and to the United States Department of Agriculture, and of 
the various departments of the station to each other; and, on the other hand, that it 
is no less its work to discuss methods and appliances of research in all the varied 
departments of agriculture in its broadest sense. 
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