EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. 2. AUGUST, 1890. No. 1. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



With the beginiihig of the second vohinie of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion Eecobd two new features are introduced. The one consists of 

 items of news from the stations, under the title of Experiment Station 

 Notes ; the other is the including of the Canadian stations with those ot 

 the United States in the abstracts of bulletins and reports. 



The Experiment Station Notes are com])iled from reports received 

 from the stations and from other sources. It is hoped that they will 

 prove a helpful means for keeping the stations advised of one another's 

 worli and plans and for showing the general public more of the spirit 

 and tendencies of the stations, the kinds of work they are doing, the 

 aid and recognition they are receiving, and the advances they are mak- 

 ing. That our Canadian neighbors are making such noteworthy progress 

 is a matter of congratulation, not only for them but lor us also. Their 

 work will be useful to us and ours to them. 



During 18S9 sonie two hundred and eighty reports and bulletins were 

 ])ublished by the stations in the United States. They were estimated 

 to aggregate about 10,000 pages. It seems reasonable to expect tbat 

 the number and bulk of the publications in 1890 will be still larger. 

 Even now the current publications are more than can be followed up 

 by any single individual. What will be the difficulties of the future in- 

 vestigator and student who shall be obliged to search through the 

 records of experiments tried, of results tested, of conclusions over- 

 thrown, in the attempt to gather the facts needed to form a judgment, 

 prepare an address, write an essay, or plan a research? This difficulty 

 has been foreseen and provision has been made for meeting i<- hv j^nppns 

 means of the publications of this Office. 



The system ot experiment station 'publications is briefly this: the 

 individual stations publish annual reports and frequent bulletins, which 

 are intended to bring promptly to the farmers of their own States prac 

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