18 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



cised to keep it Avithin the scope and character determined upon and 

 to restrict the review to articles which are worthy of the attention 

 of agricultural experts and scientists. 



The appreciation in which the Experiment Station Record is held 

 is more manifest each year. It becomes a repository of information 

 which can not be found without verj^ extended and time-consuming 

 research of the literature, and as time goes on the carefully indexed 

 volumes become of increasing value and a practical necessit}^ to men 

 who are looking up subjects of investigation. The inaugurati'ju of 

 more advanced investigation imder the Adams Act gives the Record 

 an increa-sed value and importance. It enables the workers to follow 

 the progress of experimentation and research in various lines, and 

 makes them more resourceful and useful men for such work. 



The Record is IxMug used more largely than ever before for the 

 discussion of the principles on which scientific and practical inves- 

 tigations in agriculture should jjroceed and for pointing out lines of 

 research Avhich need further development and suggesting methods for 

 the strengthening of the organization and work of the stations. 



Efforts are also being made to perfect and extend the popular 

 review of the practical results reached by our stations which is em- 

 bodied in the series of Farmers'' Bulletins entitled '' Exj)eriment Sta- 

 tion Work,''' prepared under the general editorial management of Mr. 

 W. H. Beal. Being published in large editions and widely dis- 

 tributed, these bulletins disseminate the practically useful results of 

 experiment station work more thoroughly than can be done by the 

 individual stations themselves througli their comparatively limited 

 editions of bulletins and reports, which, moreover-, are in many cases 

 restricted to distribution in the particular State in which the sta- 

 tion is located. The fact that these bulletins attempt to present care- 

 ful and conservative summaries of the best available knowledge on 

 a great variety of agricultural topics has led to their being used more 

 and more by the experiment stations and by this Oflice in answering 

 the numerous inquiries on various subjects which are received. 



The work of this Office, and especially its relation with the agri- 

 cultural colleges and experiment stations, was illustrated by an ex- 

 hibit at the Lewis and (Mark Exposition, at Portland, Oreg., during 

 the summer and fall of 1905, and arrangements have been made for 

 a similar exhii)it at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition to be 

 held in I DOT. 



The Assistant Director. Dr. E. A\'. Allen, has continued to have 

 special supervision of the business of the Office connecteil with the 

 work and expenditures of the stations. 



