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Show DR. BALL ON THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES I.nst Wednesday afternoon Dr. E. D. Ball, director of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Collego Experiment Station gavo a lecturo before tho senior students stu-dents In ngrlculturo on tho proceedings proceed-ings of tho convention of tho Associations Associ-ations of Agricultural Colleges nnd Experiment Stations held In Washington, Washing-ton, from which Dr. Ball recently returned. re-turned. Ho said that it whs tho biggest big-gest aggregation of agricultural scientists sci-entists ever assembled In this country. coun-try. Moro agricultural Institutions, aro sending their big men to this gathering than ever boforo and tho agricultural problems of tho country nre being seriously considered ns never nev-er before. Of course, Dr. Ball explained, ex-plained, theso Institutions now hhvo more big men to send. Several strong pnpers wero given on such topics as tho amount of water wa-ter used by plants, tho agronomist's relation to tho practical farmer, tho relation of tho resoarch man o tho farmer and tho rolthlon of tho federal fed-eral government to tho vtirlous agricultural agri-cultural colleges nnd experiment stations. sta-tions. As to tho latter tho speaker said thnt one of tllq good .signs of hot-tor hot-tor times' for ngrlculturo is tho fact that tho government workers are getting get-ting Into closo co-oporntion with tho colleges and stations in tho vnrlous states, nnd that tho two forces Intend to work hand in hnnd. For example, tho Dopartmont of Agrlculturo has nnnounced tho policy of appointing no person to such positions ns government govern-ment farm domonstrators In any stato oxcept thoso endorsed by tho agricultural agricul-tural collego authorities of that stato. Tho tenuro of offlco for agricultural workers was discussed nnd the concensus con-census of opinion of tho convention was thnt a man appointed a profossor It an agricultural college or In any agricultural research work should bo appointed for Ufa. Howover, It was considered Impractlchblo to grant retiring re-tiring allowances undor rrosont conditions. con-ditions. Dr. Ball wns retained on tho exec-titivo exec-titivo commlttoo of tho Amorlcnn Po-mologlcal Po-mologlcal Socloty. He said that Utah could ho tho first western state to organlzo n branch of the American Agronomic Society? |
