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hensively given out to the scientific world. The establishment of such 

 a publication with adequate financial support is also much needed to 

 provide for the issuing of a constantly growing mass of research ma- 

 terial now being withheld from adequate publication from lack of 

 funds for printing. 



Many stations still issue compiled bulletins of an entirely popular 

 character, though the office has prohibited the use of the Federal 

 funds for this purpose. This does not mean that the popular ac- 

 counts of actual experimental work and its results are to be elimi- 

 nated, but the object of this policy is to confine the popular bulletins 

 of the stations to such accounts. The popular compiled bulletins are 

 an essential feature of extension work and it is to be hoped that the 

 time will speedily come when the stations wnll leave the issuance of 

 such publications entirely to the extension departments. 



This office has urged, furthermore, that jiopular accounts of the 

 station work should give the station credit for having furni>^hed the 

 basis for the discussion by referring definitely to its experiments, so 

 that the account may not appear to have been compiled from gen- 

 eral sources of information. While the general principle that the 

 station man should be left free for his investigations and experiments 

 in proportion to his salary from station funds has not yet been fully 

 recognized in all places, encouraging progress has been made in a 

 number of institutions where the extension dej^artments organized in 

 the agricultural colleges have taken over the matter of issuing popu- 

 lar circulars and bulletins and disseminating general agricultural 

 information which is not strictly first hand. 



The work of the office in its relations with the stations has been 

 the special duty of the director, the assistant director, Mr. W. H. 

 Beal, Dr. W. H. Evans, and Mr. J. I. Schulte. 



RELATIONS WITH INSTITUTIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL 



EDUCATION. 



In several previous reports I have called attention to the rapid 

 development of agricultural education in all parts of the United 

 States and to the growing demands upon the Office of Experiment 

 Stations for advice and assistance, involving not only the prepara- 

 tion of publications specifically for the use of teachers of agriculture, 

 but also a thorough study of the broader problems of agricultural 

 education, including the attendance of specialists in agricultural edu- 

 cation at important conferences and conventions and visits by them 

 at schools or different types engaged in teaching agriculture. As 

 shown in a subsequent paragraph of this report, the agencies for 

 carrying information concerning country life and agricultural pro- 

 duction to the masses of people living upon the farms have increased 

 during the jjast year more rapidly than ever before, with a propor- 

 tionate increase in the calls upon us for assistance from State and 

 National organizati(ms and officers charged with the immediate re- 

 sponsibility for promoting this movement. 



The problems of the organization of agricultural education 

 throughout our vast country are so new and numerous that the 

 Department of Agriculture, by making a broad study of these mat- 

 ters and collecting and jiublishing the results of experience in our 

 several States and in fctreign countries, can be of great assistance 



