PUBLICATIONS. 51 



meiit, and The Transportation Companies as Factors in Agricultural 

 Extension, besides the annual report of the farmers' institute specialist 

 for 1910, a translation of the Agriculture of Belgium, 1885-1910, by 

 J. M. Stedman, assistant farmers' institute specialist, and a revision 

 of a bulletin on Legislation Relating to Farmers'' Institutes in the 

 United States. A number of addresses for conventions and institute 

 meetings were also prepared. The farmers' institute specialist is 

 secretary of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers, 

 and as such has the preparation of the program for the annual meet- 

 ing and the editing of the report of the proceedings. He is also 

 secretary of the committee on extension work of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations and assists 

 the committee in collecting information respecting that work. A 

 large and important part of the work of the office of institute spe- 

 cialist is necessarily done through correspondence, which has gTOwn 

 to large proportions and steadily increases year by year. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



As in previous years, the office issued publications (1) reviewing the 

 progress of agricultural education and research throughout the world 

 and (2) rei^orting the results of special investigations in nutrition, 

 irrigation, drainage, and agricultural education. The publications 

 of the office during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, comprised 80 

 documents, containing about 4,700 pages, exclusive of 8 separates, 

 several revised reprints of earlier publications, and a miscellaneous 

 document, which aggregated nearly TOO pages more. The publica- 

 tions included 18 numbers of Experiment Station Record, 15 techni- 

 cal bulletins, 2 reports of the office, 16 circulars, 5 publications of the 

 insular stations, 10 Farmers' Bulletins, including 6 numbers of Ex- 

 periment Station Work, 3 articles for the Yearbook of the depart- 

 ment, and 12 monthly lists of station publications. 



There is a steady growth in the volume of agricultural literature, 

 involving an increase in the work and in the amount of printing 

 necessary to present an adequate review of progress in agricultural 

 education and research. To provide for such a review two volumes 

 of Experiment Station Record were issued during the year and 

 arrangements were made whereby two additional abstract numbers 

 of the Record are issued annually. 



As time goes on the value of the Record as a great repository of 

 information pertaining to agriculture otherwise available only by an 

 extended examination of the enormous mass of literature which has 

 been published steadily increases. The 24 volumes thus far issued 

 contain references to no fewer than 85,829 articles, besides editorials, 

 special articles, and notes. The experiment station reports abstracted 



