Report of the Director 



XV 



THE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING BUSINESS OF THE COLLEGE 



The College is now publishing semi-monthly Lessons in the Reading- 

 Courses, a monthly Rural School Leaflet, bulletins of the Experiment 

 Station, and circulars of the Experiment Station. 



In the last year we also established a new publication known as the 

 "Announcer of the College of Agriculture." This is published monthly, 

 and contains brief announcements or statements of the work that the 

 College is doing. This publication has been of more service to the work 

 than any other single innovation that has been made for some time. It 

 enables us to keep the people informed of the activities of the institution 

 that they support, and it is the readiest and most economical means of 

 answering many routine questions. Some of the issues are devoted chiefly 

 to particular topics. One issue, for example, is given to exposition of 

 the experiment station work ; another to the extension work ; another to 

 the summer school work ; others to the new plans for home economics and 

 poultry buildings ; and the like. Brief advance abstracts are given of the 

 various publications. The first issue of the Announcer was published in 

 October, 191 1. It has already become an established factor in the work of 

 the institution. 



The editorial work in the College has now assumed large proportions, 

 as the following summary indicates : 



Situimary report on editorial zvork 

 October i, 191 1 — September 30, 1912 



Experiment Station bulletins 



Experiment Station circulars 



Reading-Course for Farm 



Supplements to Reading-Course for Farm 



Reading-Course for Farm Home 



Supplements to Reading-Course for Farm Home 



Rural School Leaflets 



Supplements to Rural School Leaflets 



Announcers 



Supplement to January Announcer 



Copies 



printed 



379.500 

 6,000 

 341,000 

 (341,000)2 

 360,000 

 (360 , 000) " 

 290,000 

 25,000 

 5 , 000 1 

 669 , 000 

 (35,000)2 



^Additional copies of supplement to September, 191 1, leaflet, ordered printed 

 January 8, 1912. 

 " Not included in grand total of copies printed, as printed with the bulletins. 

 ^ Not counted in grand total number of separate publications issued. 



