694 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers, Farmers' In- 

 stitutes for Young People, List of State Directors of Farmers' Insti- 

 tutes and Farmers' Institute Lecturers of the United States, Agri- 

 cultural Fair Associations and Tlieir Utilization in Agricultural 

 Education and Improvement, and The Transportation Companies as 

 Factors in Agricultural Extension were issued during the year be- 

 sides the Annual Report of the Farmers' Institute Specialist for 1910, 

 a translation of the Agriculture of Belgium, 1885-1010, by J. M. 

 Stedman, assistant farmers' institute specialist, and a revision of a 

 bulletin on Legislation Relating to Farmers' Institutes in the United 

 States. A number of addresses for conventions and institute meet- 

 ings were also prepared. The farmers' institute specialist is secre- 

 tary of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers, 

 and as such has the preparation of the program for "the annual meet- 

 ing and the editing of the report of the j^roceedings. He is also 

 secretary of the committee on extension work of the Association of 

 American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations and assists 

 the committee in collecting information respecting that work. The 

 correspondence of the office has likewise increased so as to require 

 each succeeding year a larger portion of the time of the office force 

 to conduct. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE OFFICE. 



The office issued during the year 80 documents, aggregating 4,709 

 pages, not including 8 separates, a number of revised reprints, and a 

 miscellaneous document, which aggregated 660 pages more. The 

 publications included 18 numbers of Experiment Station Record, 15 

 technical bulletins, 2 reports of the office, 16 circulars, 5 publications 

 of the insular stations, 10 Farmers' Bulletins, including 6 numbers of 

 Experiment Station Work, 3 articles for the Yearbook of the depart- 

 ment, and 12 monthly lists of station publications. 



Following the plan of the year prevdous. Volumes XXIII and 

 XXIV of Experiment Station Record were issued during the year. 

 Each volume consisted of six monthly and two additional or, as they 

 are termed, abstract numbers, together with the customary author 

 and subject indexes. 



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 investi- 

 gation and science. The abstracts have, as usual, covered the publi- 

 cations of the agricultural experiment stations of the United States 

 and the United States Department of Agriculture, researches of ex- 

 periment stations and similar institutions in all parts of the world, 

 and a large number of articles having a direct bearing upon agri- 

 cultural science and practice published in book form or in the domes- 

 tic and foreign journals. 



With the steady development of agricultural agencies the number 

 of articles to be abstracted has continued to increase. The total 

 number of abstracts included in the two volumes was 7,131, the 

 largest number for any year and nearly 1,800 in excess of that of two 



