52 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



auspices of the Offlro. (4) Piiblifntions rohiliufr to ii-rinfation and 

 dniiiia«2:e, which inchide reports, leclinicnl and ])0[)idar bulletins, 

 circulars, etc., «i:iviMir (he rcsidts of (he ii ii<2:a(ioii and draina«:re in- 

 vest i^a(ions of the Ollice. (.")) Educational and other publications, 

 including; those relating to agricultural education in general, farm- 

 ers"' institutes, proceedings of the Association of American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and P^xperiment Stations, and of the Association of 

 Farmers' Institute Workers and similar publications, and the card 

 index of experiment station literature, besides miscellaneous docu- 

 ments of various kinds. The editorial management of the publica- 

 tions of the Office, with the exception of the Exi^eriment Station 

 Record, is in charge of Mr. W. U. Beal. 



During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1000, the Department pub- 

 lished 57 documents prepared by this Office, not including revised 

 reprints, separates, etc., aggregating 3,412 pages, as compared with 

 C8 documents aggregating 3,839 pages the previous year. These 

 documents included IG numbers of the Experiment Station Record, 

 14 technical bulletins, a bulletin of the Porto Rico Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 2 reports of the Office, G Farmers' Bulletins (including 5 num- 

 bers of I-Cxperiment Station Work), 5 circulars, 12 monthly lists of 

 experiment station publications, and a farmers' institute lecture. Two 

 other numbers of the Experiment Station Record, 4 technical bulle- 

 tins, 1 annual report of the Office, 3 Farmers' Bulletins, 1 article for 

 the Yearbook of the department, and several miscellaneous docu- 

 ments, containing about 1,150 pages, were prepared and submitted 

 for publication before the close of the fiscal year. Thirteen separates 

 of individual articles contained in larger reports aggregating 463 

 pages, were reprinted in editions of varying size to supply requests 

 for the articles. 



Several of the earlier technical and Farmers' Bulletins prepared in 

 this Office were exhausted during the year and were reprinted, wnth 

 more or less important additions and corrections. 



It will be noted that there was a considerable reduction in the 

 number and volume of the publications issued by the Office during 

 1909 as compared with the previous year, and this was brought about 

 in the face of a steady growth in the work of the Office and in the 

 demand for its publications by an earnest effort to reduce the publica- 

 tion work just as much as efficient performance of the functions of 

 the Office would permit. 



Experiment Station Record was issued as heretofore under the 

 editorial management of Dr. E. W. Allen. 



The plan of publishing the Record was, however, changed so that 

 hereafter two volumes of smaller size will be issued in place of the 

 single annual volume. Each volume will include six regular num- 

 bers, two abstract numbers, and an index number, and this arrange- 



