3i2 Twelfth Annual Report. 



Herewithal, it is not to be understood that station work 

 must be ' 'practical' ' in the business sense of the term. It is for 

 the investigator, working in economic fields by slow and costly 

 methods, to ascertain useful facts; it is for the farmer, placed in 

 possession of these facts, to make them pay. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the Station, as last year, are divided into 

 two sets, — the longer and more technical bulletins and the brief, 

 though most carefully written, "Timely Hints for Farmers." 



The longer bulletins serve for the record and discussion of 

 the more important investigations of the Station. They are of 

 value to other scientific workers and to a minority of farmers 

 whose leisure and interest permits them to read. Through these 

 men, also, whatever of value may be contained in such bulletins 

 slowly reaches the great majority of those for whom it was in- 

 tended. 



The "Timely Hints," however, directly appeal to the busy, 

 everyday farmer whose time, and whose common-school educa- 

 tion perhaps, do not permit him to master a lengthy and tech- 

 nical bulletin. They are short because, if they are read at all, it 

 will be during a pause from other work. They are in newspaper 

 type because that best fits the popular eye. They are in plain 

 language because they are intended for all to understand. They 

 have vitality because they are, as far as possible, founded upon 

 our own experiments and observations. Above all, they aim to 

 convey timely information which will be of immediate utility to 

 as many as possible of those who receive them. 



During the year ending June 30, 1901, nineteen publications 

 have been distributed to the names on our mailing list, in whole 

 or in part as advisable, as follows: 



Eleventh Annual Report, 45 pages; including a discussion of 

 the principles on which the work of the Station is conducted, and 

 notes on forage crops, vegetables, winter irrigation, stockfeeding, 

 dairying, sugar beets, irrigating waters, and other agricultural 

 subjects, by various members of the staff. 



Bulletin 36, 21 pages; Experimental Work with Sugar Beets 

 during 1900, by R. H. Forbes. 



