Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-17
SCIENCE OF FARMING
State and National Educators
Begin Sessions Here.
DELEGATES NUMBER 400
Colleges, Universities and Expert.
ment Stations Represented.
AIM TO HARM0NIZE WORK
Plan to Consolidate the Several Or
CARNATIONS Under One Head
Under Amusement.

Interest Of the federal and state gov
ernments in agricultural work is growing
apidly. The attendance Of the various
state colleges and universities is increas-
ing so fast that it already far outnumbsrs
the attendance of the great universities
OF the east. and there is danger in the
aid that the national and state govern
ments give that the work may overlap on
various lines. For this reason representa-
tives of these great educational interests
meet in Washington every year and
straighten out the lines. prepare for new
CAMPAIGNS and keep the whole system
| running smoothly. This has brought to-
gether. principally at the Shoreham, this
week about 400 educators. all interested
IN similar lines of work and all of them
having relations with the government.
| There is the meeting of the state college
and university presidents, the meeting Of
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
| tons and the Society for the Promotion
of Agricultural Science. Nearly all the
| members of each of these bodies belong to
| one or more of the others, that they
| all meet together and the sessions of the
various sections are sandwiched in to-
gether SO to allow the members to
shift back and forth and attend to the
There is plan on hand this year to
| gather the several organizations or at
| least two Of them. under a single head,
| SO that there will be less confusion in the
work.
Wide Scope Of the Colleges.
The work of the agricultural colleges
| really does not begin until tomorrow 1t
is most Intimately associated with the
federal government. and its work Is the
hardest to keep in line with the work Of
the states themselves. The Department
| CT Agriculture has experiment stations
scattered all over the United States, and
at these stations work is carried on for
the benefit of the farmers in the sur
rounding territory. as we'll as for the
students Of the agricultural colleges. The
Sta-e also grants certain sums Of money
| for research work that Is carried on by
the stations often in conjunction with the
work Of the government 1t is, of course,
impossible to keep any sharp dividing line
between these several classes Of work.
and the meetings each year show what
has been done and where one station can
prevent duplicating the research work of
another station. or the states duplicating
the work of the federal government.
There Is another line of work that the
federal government and the college presi-
dents are both interested in. 1t is the
| university extension work. and consists
| of lectures and demonstrations outside
| the colleges and universities. This Is a
sort Of postgraduate agricultural work,
and is for the benefit not only of the
graduates Of the state colleges and uni
versities. but for The working farmers Of
the vicinity well.
There will be number of scientific pa
pers read at all the meetings. Workers
at the experiment stations will tell of
| their researches in the past year, how
various farming problems are being
worked out. what conclusions have been
re- hoH d0tn md y1,of to- CO.
| promising work for the coming year. d
Some Of Today's Topics.
The meeting of the Society for the
Promotion of Agricultural Science heard
number of papers today, including
| Some Seed Studies Made During 1907
by DR.. l.. II. Pammel of Ames, Mich
"Agronomic Habits of Rootstock Produc-
ing Weeds" by Prof. w. ]. Spllman OF
mological Problems and Scientific Re-
search. by Prof. NJ. w. Munson Of the
West Virginia University
The address of President Thomas F..
Hunt of the Pennsylvania State College
Wds read at the afternoon session. There
will follow this an amalgamation meeting
for the formation of a National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Agricu tural
Science. To this have been invited the
following societies: Agricultural colleges
| and experiment stations. American lnsti-
tute workers, American Forestry Asso-
citation. Society of American Foresters,
Official Dairy Instructors Association
American Association of Economic En-
tomologists. Association of Official Agri-
cultural Chemists, Society of Horticultural
Science. American Breeders Association,
American Society of Agronomy, Agricul-
tural Implement Instructors Association
and the Animal Husbandry Association.
Roosevelt Plan Discussed.
| The suggestion of President Roosevelt
as to how additional education to that
given by public schools. colleges and uni
versities may be furnished occupied the
attention of the national association Of
| university presidents at the opening of
! its thirteenth annual session yesterday.
The problem of higher education in states
that maintain more than one college or
university was discussed and papers were
read by Prof. l.. E. Reber of the Uni
verslty of Wisconsin. Prof. Frank Strong
OF the University of Kansas and Prof G.
+. MacLean of the University of Kansas
The officers of the association are:
President, Charles r. Van Hise, Uni
versity of Wisconsin; vice president,
Thomas F.. Kane, University of Wash
Ellsworth Brown. United States commits
sioner Of education; secretary-treasurer,l
George E. Fellows University of Maine.
Members in Attendance. i
Members attending the convention are:
]. w. Abercrombie. president University
| of Alabama: B. l. Wheeler, president
University of California: James H. Baker,
| president University of Colorado; E. j.
James, president University Of Illinois;
w. L. Bryan. president University of In
| diana; G. E. MacLean president Univer-
Sity Of Iowa; Frank Strong, president
University of Kansas: ]. K. Patterson.
president State College of Kentucky; G.
LE. Fellows, president University of
Maine; Clyde Duniway. president Univer-
sity of Montana; E. B. Andrews presi-
dent University of Nebraska: w. G.
Tigh, president University of New Mex
leo; J. G. Schurman. president Cornell
University; f. P. Venable. president Uni
versity of North Carolina; Webster Mer-
rifield. president University of North Da-
kota: Aston Ellis. president University
of Ohio; w. o. Thompson, president, Ohio |
State University; G. P. Benton. president |
Miami University. Oxford. Ohio; DIR. |