Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-12
LAND GRANT COLLEGES
Annual Convention to Begin
Here Tomorrow.
SEM I-OFFICIAL BODY
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
TO BE REPRESENTED.
Organization Represents Millions Of
Dollars Invested in Education-MsEy
Scientific Papers to Be Read.
SEM I-0FFICIAL BODY

The nineteenth annual convention OF
American agricultural colleges and expert
ment stations will be held at the Shoreham
commencing tomorrow evening and con-
tinung four days. The convention is a
semi-government institution. Many of the
members of the Farmers Institute, which
met here last week, are also interested in
the Agricultural College convention and
will stay over for Ii. There are fifty-nine
colleges interested in the meeting. some of
them far off as Alaska. All will have
one delegate present. and the Agricultural
Department will be represented by two del
egates-Dr. A. c. True. director of expert
ment stations, and Dr. E. W. Allen, assist
ant director.
1t is an aggregation representing large
amount of invested capital The colleges
draw about $4,000. 600 annually from the
government. In addition, they have en-
dowments. state grants and the like, bring
ing their income up to about 1000, 900.
while their buildings and equipment repre-
sent about sToo0o,000 more.
To Train Farmers.
Some of the colleges are not agricultural
altogether many are state universities.
where other things besides scientific agri
culture taught, but all the colleges rep
resented come under the category of land
grant" colleges, in which the government
has paternal interest. 1t is the greatest
aggregation of scientific agricultural schools
in the world. Other governments foster
agriculture and many have experiment sta
lions that do good work. but nowhere in
the world Is there so much money or such
well-directed government aid expended in
the scientific training of farmers.
The meeting is not purely scientific
gathering. There will be a number of
very interesting scientific papers read but
the convention will deal with the broader
questions of college and university man
agement
1t is now almost score of years since
this annual meeting was instituted. There
were agricultural colleges before that but
it was. not till the Hatch act of 1887 that
the annual convention was instituted under
the supervision of the Agricultural Depart
ment. 1t has continued ever since. ana
has been of great benefit in bringing the
teachers together, broadening and co-ordi-
ra ting the work and giving all the benent
Of the work of each individual member.
Program of Convention.
The first meeting of the colleges Will lie
held at the Skoreham tomorrow evening,
but will be simply the assembling of me
executive committee. The next day the
real work of the convention will commence
At 10 am. there will be presented the re-
port of the executive committee, of which
Fl. c. White of Georgia is the chairman.
Reports also will be received from the Of
ticers and the standing committees as fol-
lows:
Pure food legislation, by W A Withers
Of North Carolina; uniform feeder and
foodstuff laws, by II. j Wheeler of Rhode
Island: animal and plant breeding W. NJ
Hays of Washington, and methods of seed
testing, f. H. Jenkins of Connecticut Dis
cussions will be in order after the presenta-
ton of each of the committee reports.
The sections college work and expert
nent station work will meet simultaneously
each day at pm. After the work of the
sections there will be a general business
meeting at pm. At the evening session
on Tuesday there will be an address by the
president of the association, f. B. Yoor-
bees of New Jersey.
During the session on Wednesday several
interesting papers will be read. One adj
dress will be on The Relation of AgricuI-
tUral Colleges to Industrial Education in
It's Elementary and Secondary Phases, by
Superintendent L. d. Harvey of the Stout
training schools of Menomonie. Wis. Re
ports will be made by the standing comft-
tee on military instruction on land grant
colleges, e. w. Atherton of Pennsylvania,
chairman: graduate study. L. II. Bailey of
New York, chairman, and methods of
teaching agriculture, A. c. True of Wash
iEgton, chairman
In Memory of Fl. II. Goodal.
At the meeting on Thursday there will be
Stone of Perdue University. Ind, on THE
Life and Services OF President Henry Fl.
Goodall." Reports of committees and the