688 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



at which or for which tlie work was done. There has been some 

 laxity in the matter of recognizing this principle, and in a number 

 of cases records have been carried aAvay from tlie station by the indi- 

 vidual worker on severing his connection with the institution. When- 

 ever it has been the intent to appropriate such material and to use 

 and publish it at an experiment station in some other State, the office 

 lias refused to approve a project based upon such action without the 

 <?onsent of the station where the work was originally done. 



The lack of a suitable place for the publication of results of in- 

 vestigation in technical detail still continues. In numerous instances 

 staticn workers have published in scientific journals in this country 

 and abroad such technical results as they did not consider advisable 

 to publish in the ordinary station bulletin. Among the stations 

 better provided with funds a number ha\',' inaugurated the publica- 

 tion of a series of technical or research bulletins, and while this re- 

 lieves the situation to a certain extent it does not adequately provide 

 for bringing the results to the notice of the interested public, even 

 in so far as these particular institutions are concerned. The coming 

 of the Adams fund tends to complicate the situation, inasmuch as it 

 provides much work of a technical character, while at the same time 

 the fund can not be used for publication. The results of this work, 

 in many cases, demand presentation in detail from a strictly scien- 

 tific point of view. Provision for the proper and adequate publica- 

 tion of such technical matter as is worked out by the station investi- 

 gators throughout this country would not only be a direct encourage- 

 ment to every station worker, but would also bring the scientific 

 Avorld in touch wnth the research features of our experiment station 

 system, and would give to it the standing in the realm of science to 

 which it is clearly entitled. 



The detailed review of the work and expenditures of all the sta- 

 ,tions for the fiscal year 11)10, published in the annual report of this 

 office for that year, contains many evidences of substantial ]>rogress 

 in research and the accumulation of useful practical results. The 

 same is true of the similar review for the year 1911 now being made 

 by the office. On the whole, the American experiment stations are 

 steadily strengthening their organization and their work. The 

 volume of results strictly beneficial to our agriculture is constantly 

 swelling. The number of farmers and horticulturists who are taking 

 advantage of the work of the stations is now \evy large, and each 

 year brings additional evidence of the increasing esteem in which 

 practical men hold the institutions devoted to scientific study of the 

 problems of agriculture. 



RELATIONS WITH INSTITUTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL 



EDUCATION. 



In my report for 1910 I called attention to the rapid development 

 of public interest in the broader phases of agricultural education 

 and to the evidence that the right solution of the problems of country 

 life and agricultural production will depend very largely on an 

 effective system of practical education which will reach the masses 

 of men, women, and children on the farms. Reference was also 

 made to the complexity of the problems involved in organizing 



