Show AGRICULTURISTS ASSOCIATION Scerefnry llurtoti Cull Is Atlenlion to I Some Very linporljuit Facts I Washington Nov HAt a business session at Grand Army hal tonight of the agriculturalists convention resolu tions were adopted receiving with pleas ure a communication from Prof Nobhc of the Association of the Agricultural Experiment Stations of the German Km pire and conveying a gieetiilg and grateful acknowledgement grcetlg coin tesy and heartily approving recent con gresslonal legislation giving to the sec retary of the treasury a measure of the supervision of the money expended for experiments t Secretary Morton was present and in a brief speech to the delegates referred a the little good accomplished by the present pres-ent method of distributing seeds and plants throughout congressional channels and declaring he would recommend the system to be abolished and Instead thereof there-of he would ask that an additional appropriation addional propriation be made for each experiment station for the purchase of seeds by the sta ton director so that seeds plants etc adapted to the soil and climate of the sections can be purchased He also referred to the denudation of the forests for-ests of the country and said he thought the stations would have a kindergarten class in forestry At the present rate of use of timber the forests of this country will he said in a few generations genera-tions be as denuded ab the orient is today |