February, ’20] 
BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS 
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C. L. Metcalf, Columbus, Ohio. 
Z. P. Metcalf, West Raleigh, N. C. 
J. H. Montgomery, Gainesville, Fla. 
Edna Mosher, Albuquerque, N. M. 
Henry Ness, Ames, Iowa. 
Wilmon Newell, Gainesville, Fla. 
F. M. O’Byrne, Gainesville, Fla. 
W. C. O’Kane, Durham, N. H. 
Herbert Osborn, Columbus, Ohio. 
Raymond C. Osburn, Columbus, Ohio. 
F. B. Paddock, Ames, Iowa. 
H. R. Painter, Webster Groves, Mo. 
J. R. Parker, Bozeman, Mont. 
R. R. Parker, Bozeman, Mont. 
P. J. Parrott, Geneva, N. Y. 
Edith M. Patch, Orono, Me. 
L. M. Peairs, Morgantown, W. Va. 
F. C. Pellett, Hamilton, Ill. 
Alvah Peterson, New Brunswick, N. J. 
W. D. Pierce, Denver, Colo. 
W. A. Price, Lafayette, Ind. 
George H. Rea, Ithaca, N. Y. 
H. J. Reinhard, College Station, Texas. 
W. A. Riley, St. Paul, Minn. 
J. M. Robinson, Auburn, Ala. 
A. G. Ruggles, St. Paul, Minn. 
W. E. Rumsey, Morgantown, W. Va. 
V. I. Safro, Louisville, Ky. 
J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa. 
E. R. Sasscer, Washington, D. C. 
A. F. Satterthwait, Webster Groves, 
Mo. 
W. J. Schoene, Blacksburg, Va. 
E. E. Scholl, Austin, Texas. 
V. E. Shelford, Urbana, Ill. 
Franklin Sherman, Jr., Raleigh, N. C. 
F. L. Simanton, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
O. I. Snapp, Agricultural College, Miss. 
E. W. Stafford, Agricultural College, 
Miss. 
Frank Stirling, Gainesville, Fla. 
K. C. Sullivan, Columbia, Mo. 
M. H. Swenk, Lincoln, Neb. 
M. C. Tanquary, Manhattan, Kan. 
L. R. Taft, East Lansing, Mich. 
F. L. Thomas, Auburn, Ala. 
James Troop, Lafayette, Ind. 
W. R. Walton, Washington, D. C. 
H. R. Watts, Knoxville, Tenn. 
R. L. Webster, Ithaca, N. Y. 
C. A. Weigel, Washington, D. C. 
R. D. Whitmarsh, Milwaukee, Wis. 
President W. C. O’Kane: The meeting will please come to order. 
We will listen to the Secretary’s report. 
Secretary A. F. Burgess: Before reading the report, I would like 
to make a short statement which may be of interest to some of the 
members. 
Sixteen years ago this Association met at St. Louis. This was the 
first year that the speaker acted as your Secretary. At that meeting, 
the records show that there were on the rolls 91 active, 43 associate 
and 41 foreign members, or a total membership of 175. The present 
membership is 566, which indicates how we have grown. At the St. 
Louis meeting sixteen years ago, 29 members were present. Today 
over 100 have registered. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 
At the time of the Baltimore meeting, the total membership of the Association 
was 553; active 164, associate 340, and foreign 48. At that meeting, one active 
and four associate members resigned, and 53 were transferred from the associate to 
the active roll. During the year, 17 associate members have been dropped and one 
associate and one foreign member have died. Thirty-seven associate members 
were elected at the Baltimore meeting and one was reinstated. The present member¬ 
ship totals 566, and includes 216 active, 303 associate, and 47 foreign. The net gain 
for the year has been 13 members. 
May 21, 1916, Prof. A. Porchinski, Minister of Agriculture, Petrograd, Russia, 
