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So far this difficulty has been met bj^ the liberal and progressive 

 spirit of the Agricultural Press. It has uniformly shown such a 

 broad and kindly spirit, not only towards the workers of the Sta- 

 tion and their investigations, but to the cause of improved agri- 

 culture, thereby arousing interest and aiding the Station in get- 

 ting before the public the results of its work, that I desire here, 

 publicly, to acknowledge the great obligation to it we and our 

 constituents are under. 



The policy of aiding the reader to understand and remember the 

 results obtained in our investigations by numerous illustrations, 

 which was begun last year, has been enlarged upon and continued 

 this. It was early found that untrained laborers were illy suited 

 to perform even the most common operations of experiment work 

 without careful and constant supervision. So, for the sake of both 

 economy and accuracy, the common laborer has been largel_v dis- 

 pensed with, and the work has been performed by the salaried as- 

 sistants. This gives the appearance in the financial report of 

 having spent a small amount for labor and a large amount for 

 salaries. 



In some branches of the Station work, some difficulty is found 

 in writing the bulletins so that they will be entirely clear to the 

 ordinary reader, l>ecause no common or popular names and terms 

 can be found which can be used instead of those adopted by the 

 scientists. We trust that the criticisms and difficulties will grad- 

 ually disappear, as the readers become more familiar with scien- 

 tific terms, and we more expert in avoiding and in coining popular 

 substitutes or brief explanatory terms for them. 



I. P. ROBERTS, 



Director. 



