458 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



reference to the fiscal year covered by the report, and in the annual 

 report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations. The 

 annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations regularly con- 

 tains a summary of information regarding the nutrition investiga- 

 tions and not unfrequently a special article on some nutrition topic. 

 Articles on nutrition topics have frequently appeared in the Year- 

 book jDublished by the Department of Agriculture, and lilve other 

 such articles are commonly reprinted as separates for special distri- 

 bution. 



The pamphlets entitled " Farmers' Bulletins," issued at frequent 

 intervals by the Department of Agriculture, constitute a useful and 

 very popular series of publications, designed to present in concise 

 yet jDopular form the results of the department investigations as 

 well as summaries of general data on agricultural topics. Up to the 

 close of the fiscal j^ear ending June 30. 1910, 41G Farmers' Bulletins 

 had been issued. Of this number the nutrition investigations have 

 contributed some 25, which have dealt with such subjects as the 

 Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food; Meat — Com- 

 position and Cooking; Bread and Bread Making; Eggs and Their 

 Uses as Food; Use of Fiaiit as Food; Use of Milk as Food; Food 

 Value of Corn and Corn Products; Cereal Breakfast Foods; Canned 

 Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies — Household Methods of Preparation ; 

 Preparation of Vegetables for the Table ; Economical Use of Meat in 

 the Home ; Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home ; and Care of 

 Food in the Home. Many of the summaries which have appeared in 

 the series of Farmers' Bulletins entitled " Experiment Station "Work '' 

 also treat of nutrition topics. 



Farmers' Bulletins on nutrition have had a wide distribution, not 

 only among housekeepers in rural regions and in towns, but also 

 among pujDils and teachers in schools and colleges, by whom they have 

 been used as general sources of information and to supplement text- 

 books. Some of the earlier Farmers' Bulletins are no longer available 

 for distribution, having in most cases been replaced by later sum- 

 maries. Late statistics show that of the 21 which are now available a 

 total of 7,072,000 copies have been distributed. The largest number in 

 the case of any single one of these nutrition bulletins has been 1,200,- 

 000. Since these publications are distributed almost entirely on 

 request, the figures quoted give a good idea of their popularity. 



Occasionally summaries of work or compilations of data are pub- 

 lished in the form of circulars, particularly when it is thought that 

 the material will soon be in need of revision, or perhaps more gen- 

 erally when the article in question is more brief than the average 

 Farmers' Bulletin. Circulars are distributed in practically the same 

 way as Farmers' Bulletins. A circular issued in connection with the 



