Jan. 6 10 18 By O. B. Whipple, dues 1909.. By College of Agrl., Univ. of Ga., Reports 1910, 1911.. 2.00 2.00 By F. C. Sears, dues 1913.. 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 By C. S. Pomeroy, dues 1913. 1.00 1.00 By G. C. Husmann, dues 1913.. 1.00 22 1.00 By W. W. Tracy, Sr., dues 1913. 1.00 1.00 1.00 6 By O. B. Whipple, dues 1913. 1.00 1.00 1,00 1.00 1.00 1,00 1.0 1.00 Crow, dues 1913. 1.00 1.00 1.00 1:00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 26 By R. Wellington, dues 1913.. 1909 26 By A. V. Stubenrauch, Reports 1903-4, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1.00 4.00 26 By H. L. Hutt, dues 1913. 1.00 26 By P. J. Shaw, dues 1913.. 1.09 26 By W. R. Beattie, dues 1913. 1.00 1.00 G By R. W. Rees, dues 1913 and first six Reports. 7.00 18 By State College of C. lorado, Reports for 1910 and 28 By Ontario Agrl. College, Keports for 1963 & 4, 1905, 4.00 28 By Will B. Munson, three Reports for 1912. 3.00 30 By W. A. Taylor, due 191. 1.00 30 Ly Exp.. Station, Lexington, Ky., Report 1912. 1.00 May 9 By Expt. 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Station, first eight Reports. 21 1.00 1.00 1.00 $.00 2.00 1.00 1.06 1.00 1.00 11 By State Board of Agr., Harrisburg, Pa., first eight Reports 11 By W. S. Blair, dues 1913. 1.00 Տ. ՈՐ 1.00 By W. H. Lowdermilk & Co., 2 Reports each for 1910, 13 15 16 By S. W. Fletcher, dues 1913. 1.04 1.00 By W. F. Fletcher, first six Reports. 1.00 6.00 1.00 By J. C. Whitten, dues 1913... 1.000 College, N. M., Reports 1910, 1911. 21 By M. F. Ahearn, dues 1913.. 1.00 1.00 2.00 11 11 By Agricultural College, Durham, N. H., Report 1910.. 1.00 2.00 20 By Ohio State University, first eight Reports. 8.00 20 By Le Roy Cady, dues 1913, 1914... 2.00 20 By A. C. McClurg & Co., Reports 1910, 1911. 4.00 1.00 The auditing committee reported that it had examined the accounts of the treasurer and found them to be correct. H. J. EUSTACE, J. H. GOURLEY, H. P. STUCKY, Committee. Vice-President Lloyd was asked to preside while President Hedrick delivered the President's address as follows: MULTIPLICITY OF CROPS AS A MEANS OF INCREASING BY U. P. HEDRICK, Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. Economists prophesy a deficiency in the world's food supply. The cost of living everywhere portends accuracy in their divination. The fast and furious struggle between nations and individuals for land upon which to grow food augurs lean years to come. Census enumerations of population presage sooner or later a dearth of ammunition among the multiplying peoples of the earth to carry on the battle of life. Of all this you need to be reminded rather than informed. So many men have stated and attempted to solve the problem of the future food supply that it would seem that the subject has been wholly talked out from the facts at hand. Indeed, there has been so much said and written about hard times at hand and famine ahead that I doubt if you are pleased to have your premonitions reawakened by further forebodings, and to be forced through the prestige of the president's chair to give attention to a subject which has been so much discussed. Thrashing over old straw in the presidential chair, is, I quite agree with you, a most abominable practice and I have done my best to bring a few sheaves of grain to the trashing I am now beginning. Agricultural economists discuss three rather general means of securing a food supply for those who live later when the earth teems with human beings. These are: conservation of recources. greater acreages under cultivation, and increased yields from improved plants and through better tillage. It is difficult to anticipate the problems that will confront us when people swarm on the land, as now in India or China, but I venture the prediction that if in that day "the evil arrows of famine" are sent upon us, a fourth means of supplying food will be found quite as important as the three named. We shall find, long before famine overtakes us, that the natural capacity of soils and climates to produce a diversity of crops is one of the greatest resources for an increased food supply. As yet. multiplicity of crops as a means of augmenting the supply of food. has received little attention, and I want to bring you to a better realization of its possibilities in the half hour at my disposal, attempting to show, in particular, how greatly the necessities and luxuries of life can be increased by the domestication of wild esculents; by better distribution of little known food plants; and by the amelioration of crops we now grow through breeding them with wild or little known relatives. Few, even among those who have given special attention to agricultural crops, have a proper conception of the number that might be grown. De Candolle, one of the few men of science who has made a systematic study of domesticated plants and whose Origin of Cultivated Plants has long been sanctioned by science as authoritative, is much to blame for the current misconception as to the number of plants under cultivation. By conveying the idea that his book covers the whole field, De Candolle prepared the ground for a fine crop of misunderstandings. Humboldt had stated in 1807 that "The origin, the first home of the plants most useful to man, and which have accompanied him from the remotest epochs, is a secret as impenetrable as the dwelling of all our domesticated animals." De Candolle set out to disprove Humboldt. He assorted cultivated plants in 247 species and ascertained very accurately the histories of 244 out of the total number. De Candolle's thoroughness, patience, judgment. aflluence of knowledge, clear logic and felicity of expression, make his book so trustworthy and valuable in most particulars, that we have accepted it as the final word in all particulars, overlooking his faulty enumeration and forgetting that most of his material was gathered more than a half century ago. My first task is to establish the fact that the number of plants now cultivated for food, the world over, is not appreciated in either science or practice. Neither are botanists nor agriculturists |