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The expense in these several directions is not itemized for each 

 line of work for the reason that the same force of chemists is 

 active along these several lines, which is true of other departments 

 of the Station, and it is somewhat difficult to make divisions of 

 salaries and other expenses on an exact basis of time used and of 

 laboratory expenditures. The item is, therefore, presented as 

 follows : 



Upon enforcing the provisions of the law in relation to commercial 

 fertilizers, concentrated feeding stuffs, fungicides and insecticides, 

 agricultural seeds, and the testing and marking of Babcock glass- 

 ware $18, 000 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the Station fall under six heads : 



(1) Technical Bulletins, the subject-matter of which is tech- 

 nically scientific and sets forth the results of investigations that 

 are regarded as fundamental to succeeding attempts at the solu- 

 tion of practical probletms. The bulletins are not intended for 

 popular use and have a limited circulation. 



(2) Complete Bulletins, which give in full detail the methods 

 followed in studying certain practical problems and the entire 

 data from which the conclusions are drawn. Through such com- 

 plete statements, every investigator or experimenter is bound to 

 set forth the results of his work in order that his methods and con- 

 clusions may be open to the fullest inspection and criticism. This 

 is especially to be desired if it is expected that the dicta of Station 

 publications are to be accepted and applied in practice. The com- 

 plete bulletins of the Station are evidently found useful by many 

 teachers both in colleges and in schools of a lower grade. They 

 are also sought by a small percentage of persons engaged in prac- 

 tical agriculture. 



(3) Popular Bulletins are somewhat popular presentations of 

 the more extensive and more technical subject-matter of the com- 

 plete bulletins. They are intended to make plain to the non- 



