Mr. Armsby. The provisional section <'ii Btatioo work desires bo 
■it the following resolution, relating to the Letter received from the 
German Association of Experiment Stations: 
Resohc, i. That the cultural oolleges and • 
st .ni„iis of the sd S Itfa - ..iiiiiinii i. 
of Prof. Dr, Nobbe and deepl) appreciate the evidence d and frafc 
of the Association ni Agricultural Experiment 81 
ll, : ,t the 1 1 ion be Instructed t<> « Prof. 
Dgand grateful acknowledgment of his courtesy and t.. si 
him that ere thai! always welcome in the meeting! of this Association th< 
and participation of any gentlemen connected with the German static 
Adopted. 
Mi. Armsbt . 1 am instructed also by the same section to pivs.Mii for 
tin- action of the Association the following resolution: 
Thai this Association heartily approves recent legislation bj I 
iry of Agriculture a measure of supervision over the expendi- 
ture of th- 
rbat this Association Indo scheme of financial statement 
adopted by the 8 iltnre, and will approve and welcome the i 
scrutiny of the work of the stations by the Department of Agriculture, either by 
:,;il visitations of an agent of the Department, or Bueh other method as the 
>f Agriculture may deem most efficient. 
Adopted. 
The chair then introduced the Eon. J. Sterling Morton, who made the 
following address : 
lerienee much pleasure in learning, through the resolution which 
yon 1. •• That the agricultural experiment stations and agricultural col- 
d with the Department of Agriculture as t<» the manner in 
which the public funds appropriated for their support shall be accounted for. r 
ny misfortune, perhaps (or my lark of ability to state a proposition clearl 
.; t that t! anally appropriated for tin- maintenance 
of these st • th«- only moneys *-\, r appropriated out of the 
hich no accounting had ever been required by an 
through a: the United - oauditing, 
ami i. • -ni). troll. appropri 
and put before him .. r filed in a department of the Government. It seemed t«. m< 
lover of this ■• 
should be made plain ami put in th« ' **o 
lecomplished 
,1,.. it . that that i Itural 
• only 
of the 
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