PUBLICATIONS. 41 



means of technical and popular bulletins; the management of the 

 agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Rico; 

 special investigations on the nutrition of man and on irrigation and 

 drainage, conducted largely in cooperation with experiment stations, 

 educational institutions, and other agencies in different States and 

 Territories, and the promotion of the interests of farmers' institutes 

 throughout the United States. 



INCOME. 



The income of the OiRce during the past fiscal year, derived wholly 



from appropriations by Congress, was as follows : 



For the general business of the Office (including farmers' 



institutes) $45,000 



For the Alaska experiment stations 15, (X)0 



For the Hawaiian Experiment Station 15, (XX) 



For the Porto Rico Experiment Station 15,000 



For nutrition investigations 20,000 



For irrigation and drainage investigations G7, 500 



Total 177,500 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the Office may be conveniently grouped in four 

 main classes: (1) Experiment Station Record, which gives a tech- 

 nical review of the current literature of agricultural investigation 

 throughout the world ; Experiment Station Work, which is published 

 periodically in the Farmers' Bulletin series of the Department and 

 gives a popular summary of some of the more salient practical results 

 of the work of the experiment stations; and the Bimonthly List of 

 Experiment Station Publications, which is now regularly published 

 by the Office. (2) Publications relating to the food and luitrition of 

 man. reporting or leased upon the results of nutrition investigations 

 conducted under the auspices of the Office. (3) Publications relat- 

 ing to irrigation and drainage, giving the results of the Irrigation and 

 Drainage Investigations of the Oflice. (4) Miscellaneous publications, 

 including those relating to agricultural education in general, includ- 

 ing farmers' institutes, proceedings of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Exi)eriment Stations and ol the American 

 Association of Farmers' Institute Workers, annual reports of the 

 Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, the Card Index of 

 Experiment Station Literature, and similar publications. 



During the past fiscal year the Office published T);") documents, not 

 including revised reprints, separates, etc., aggregating 4,57(1 i)ages. 

 These documents include 12 numbers of the Experiment Station 

 Record, 11 technical bulletins, 2 bulletins of the Porto Rico Experi- 

 ment Station (English and Spaniiih editions), 1 bulletin of the 



