UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE P. H. ROLFS, dean AND Director GAINESVILLE May 11, 1917. Mr. F. B. S. Phillips, Convention Secy., Old Spanish Trail Association, Tallahassee, Fla. Dear Sir: I thank yon very much for your invitation to attend the meeting of the Old Spanish Trail Association. I fear that the work at the present timeis such that it will he impracticable for me to be in Tallahassee at that time. Very truly yours. Director. R/f EXPERIMENT STATION JOHN M. SCOTT. Vice-Dircctor B F. FUOVD. Plant'ph'ysVolooist J. R WATSON. Entomologist H. E. STEVENS. Plant Patholooiot C. D.SHERBAKOFF. Associate Pathologist S. R. COLLISON. Chemist EXTENSION DIVISION C. K. McQUARRlE. State Aoent A. P SPENCER. Assistant Dirsctor E. S. PACE. Aoe NT Northern Diothict G. L. HERRINGTON. Aqsnt Boys' Corn Cluds COLLEGE FACULTY W. L. FLOYD Assistant Dean and Pnor. or Horticulture C. L. WILLOUGHBY J E. TURLINGTON F. M. RAST Asst. Prof, or Soils ano Fertilizers