Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
Problems to Be Defined,
Policies Discussed and
Research Planned.
PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS
WILL BE REPRESENTED
Secretary Of State Stimson Will
Address Opening Session of
Meeting.

Delegates from Latin American coun-
tries were assembling here today for
the opening tomorrow of the first In
teramerican Conference on Agriculture.
Forestry and Animal Industry. The
conference will continue in session until
September 20 to consider virtually every
problem relating to agriculture and its
allied industries as practiced in the
Americas.
The aims of the conference, which
Is expected to be the first of a series
OF similar gatherings, were outlined as
threefold, namely: To define the out
standing problems in each country
which may be solved by Interamerican
cooperation; to discuss policies and
methods of procedure with respect to
such cooperation and to consider the
establishment and location of research
stations or laboratories, and the means
OF their financial support.
Private Associations Represented.
The delegates at this conference are
not confined solely to those who are
ofnctal representatives of their govern
mentS. Further cooperation between
the governments and industry, 1t Is felt,
Will be OF great assistance in helping to
solve the agricultural problems, so a
number OF representatives of private
associations and organizations will be
in attendance.
Secretary of State Stimson will well
come the delegates at the opening ses-
sion tomorrow morning. Other adj
dresses during the course of the con-
ference will be given by Secretary of
Agriculture Hyde, Secretary of Com
merce Lamont and DR.. George K. Bur-
CESS, chief Of the Bureau of Standards.
On Wednesday, the delegates will be
received by President Hoover at the
White House. They will be luncheon
guests tomorrow of the Governing Board
Of the Pan-American Union. Thursday
evening a concert of Latin American
music viii be given in the Pan-Ameri-
can Building.
In addition to their formal sessions
opportunity will be- afforded the visiting
delegates to inspect number of ex-
pertinent stations and laboratories, in
GLIDING the Governments experimental
farm at Arlington; the plant field sta
ton at Glenn Dale, Md, and the AMI
NAL and Dairy Industry Experimental
Station at Beltsville. Interesting COL
lections of moving pictures and exhibits
BY the Department Of Agriculture also
viii be shown.
Plan Research Cooperation.
Recommendation will be made to the
conference, on the basis of a resolution
recently adopted by the governing
board of the Pan-American Union, that
such gatherings be held every fve years,
with national conferences in the interim.
Plans will be presented looking to per-
rnanent inter-American cooperation in
various lines of research work; in the
gathering and distribution to all the in
terested countries of statistics; and in
the study of problems involving COM
petition In the growing and marketing
of inter-American crops with those
of other countries.
In an Official statement it was pointed
out that the conference comes at an
opportune time because the pace of
economic development in Latin America
Is beginning to quicken and an In
creasfng interest In agricultural af-
fairs is noticeable in all countries. It
is of prime importance, 1t was said, that
the conservation, exploitation and de-
velopment of the natural resources of
the Americas should be effected in ac-
cordance with the most rational meth
DDS so that the advancement of each
country may rest on Arm foundation.