746 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



pages, prepared by this Oflice, not including revised reprints, sepa- 

 rates, and minor miscellaneous publications. These documents in- 

 clude '20 numbers of P^xperiment Station Hecoixl, 12 technical bulle- 

 tins, a report of the Alaska experiment stations, 2 rej)orts of the 

 Otlice, 17 Farmers' Bulletins (including 5 numbers of Plxperiment 

 Station Work), 17 circulars, 12 monthly lists of experiment station 

 publications. 2 farmers" institute lectures, and 3 lists of publications 

 of the OHice on irrigation, drainage, and agricultural education. 

 Two other numbers of Experiment Station Record, 8 technical bulle- 

 tins, 1 annual report of the Office, 3 Farmers' Bulletins, 1 article for 

 the Yearbook or the Department, and several miscellaneous docu- 

 ments containing about 1050 pages were prepared and submitted for 

 publication before the close of the fiscal year. Twelve separates of 

 individual articles contained in larger reports, aggregating 43G pages, 

 were reprinted in editions of varying size to supply requests for the 

 articles. Several of the earlier technical and Farmers' Bulletins 

 prepared by the Office were exhausted during the year and were 

 reprinted with additions and corrections. 



In addition to the above, 2 reports and 5 bulletins of the Hawaii 

 Station and 2 reports and 3 bulletins of the Porto Rico Station, 

 although printed locally by the stations, were edited in the Office. 



The most important increases in the publication work of the Office 

 were in the case of Experiment Station Record and in Farmers' 

 Bulletins contributed by the Office. 



In accordance with the plan outlined in the last annual report, 

 Volumes XXI and XXII of Experiment Station Record were issued 

 during the year. Each volume has consisted of six monthly and 

 two additional or, as they are termed, abstract numbers, together with 

 the customary author and subject indexes. The adoption of the plan 

 of having two volumes a year has proved advantageous, as it has 

 made possible the issuing of the indexes more promptly than could 

 be done wnth but one volume per year, and has also resulted in a 

 less bulky and more convenient volume for binding. 



As in previous years, the numbers have been made up largely of 

 abstracts of agricultural literature, together with brief notes on the 

 organization, equipment, and development of institutions for agri- 

 cultural education and research in this country and abroad, and, in 

 the case of the regular monthly numbers, of editorials and special 

 articles on important phases of the progress of agricultural investiga- 

 tion and science. The abstracts have, as usual, covered the publica- 

 tions of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States 

 and the United States Department of Agriculture, researches of 

 experiment stations and similar institutions in all parts of the 

 world, and a large number of articles having a direct bearing upon 

 agricultural science and practice published in book form or in the 

 domestic and foreign journals. 



With the steady development of agricultural agencies the number 

 of articles to be abstracted has continued to increase, but the addi- 

 tion of the abstract numbers has materially relieved the congestion of 

 accumulated material, reduced the interval which must elapse before 

 the publication of abstracts, and to some extent permitted a more 

 complete review of the literature and the preparation of somewhat 

 more extended abstracts. A total of 7,048 abstracts were included 



