DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



101 



N. Y. Meteorolojiy. (Di*aper's 



Hourly reading.) 

 N. Y. Produce Review. 

 Ohio Farmer. 



Official Gazette, U. S. Patent Office. 

 Orange Jndd Farmer, 

 Oregon Agriculturist. 

 Owosso Press American. 

 Poultry Keeper. 

 Practical Dairyman. 

 l*ark and Cemetery, 

 Philippine Agrl. Review. 

 Practical Farmer. 

 Publicity Magazine. 

 Records of the Australian Museum. 

 Redman. 



Reliable Poultry Journal, 

 Republic, Rockefeller Institute for 



Medical Research, Studies, 



Rural Advocate, 



Rural Xew Yorker. 



Southern Farm ]NIagazine. 



Saginaw Evening News, 



State Journal, Lansing, 



Southern Cultivator. 



Special Crops. 



Sviccessful Farming. 



Twentieth Century Magazine. 



Tuscola County Advertiser. 



Western Society of Engineers, 



Journal. 

 Wallace Farmer. 

 Washington Acad, of Sciences, 



Proceedings. 

 Weather Review. 

 Wilson Bulletin, 

 Writer, 



The publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, and 

 the bulletins of the various state experiment stations, together with the 

 card indexes which cover them, are received and filed in the library. 

 We also receive and file the catalogs of the leading educational institu- 

 tions of the country. 



The number of books taken from the library for home use during the 

 year was 7,848. The largest number borrowed during any month of the 

 year was lUJT, and the smallest number borrowed was KIT. — the months of 

 February and August respectively. Fines to the amount of |32.30 have 

 been collected during the year and j^laced to the credit of the library. 



The library hours have remained unchanged, and for our assistant, 

 ]Miss Bessie Palm, and our student assistant, Mr. R. E. Duddles, Ave have 

 only words of commendation for the conscientious performance of duty. 



To the library of the p]xperiment Station have been added 2:>() bound 

 volumes of Avliich 121 were purchased, 4 were gifts, and 111 came by 

 binding. 



The college library now numbers .31,07.5 bound volumes, and the ex- 

 periment station library contains 4,427 volumes. Total in both libraries, 

 35,.502 volumes. This number includes all books belonging to depart- 

 ments so far as they have catalogned. 



Respectfullv submitted, 



'li:^da e. landon, 



Librarian. 

 East Lansing, June 30, 1012, 



