OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 829 



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 montlily 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 experi- 

 ment 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. 



As heretofore, the editorial management of the Record was in 

 direct charge of Dr. E. W. Allen, assistant director, with Mr. H. L, 

 Knight as assistant editor. 



The editorial staff was enlarged during the year by the apppoint- 

 ment of Mr. R. Trullinger to have charge of abstracting in rural 

 engineering, Mr. W. E. Boyd succeeded Mr. W, H, Long as assistant 

 in the section of botany and plant pathology. At the close of the 

 year Mr. J. O. Rankin resigned as assistant in the section of farm 

 crops. 



The office continued to supplement the Record by a bimonthly 

 review of progress in the more practical lines of investigation at the 

 experiment stations in the Experiment Station Work series of 

 Farmers' Bulletins. 



The proceedings of the American Association of Farmers' Institute 

 Workers were prepared and submitted for publication by the depart- 

 ment through the office. 



The office continued the publication of the card index of experiment 

 station literature. The total number of cards of this index dis- 

 tributed has now reached 32,200. The receipts from sales of the 

 index during the year were $4(58.81. Mr. M. D. Moore has had 

 charge of the preparation and distribution of this index. 



The general editorial work on publications of the office, exclusive 

 of the Experiment Station Record, was, as heretofore, in charge of 

 Mr, W. H. Beal. 



INSULAR STATIONS. 



The experiment stations maintained by this office in Alaska, 

 Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam report having made satisfactory 

 progress with their work during the past fiscal year. There have 

 been but few changes in the personnel of the stations and as a con- 

 sequence there have been no serious interruptions to their investi- 

 gations. No change has been made in the policy of the stations, and 

 they are continuing to devote their efforts to bringing about a proper 

 diversification of agricultural industries. In (iiis they are becoming 

 somewhat encouraged, as several industries that have been developed 

 or fostered by them are beginning to assume considerable economic 

 importance. Some of the principal lines of work at the several 

 stations are briefly noted in the accompanying rej^orts. 



The stations are rapidly making a phice for themselves in the 

 esteem of the peojile for whom they are maintainecL This is shown 

 by local and cooperative support, demand for publications, requests 



