tical results they have gained, aud to give full details of luauagenieut 

 and of scientific work especially for tlie benefit of tlio stations aud in- 

 vestigators. The publications of the Office of Experimeut Stations are 

 to collate, crystallize, aud distribute the product of the whole work. 



But this system, well-rounded as it is, is lacking in one particular. 

 It does not fully meet the needs of the farmers of the country. Much 

 of the work of each station is valuable to the farmers of many States. 

 No station can undertake the study of all, or even all the most import- 

 ant, problems of its own State. Many problems are being investigated 

 by several stations. Many citizens are therefore as much interested in 

 work done in other States as in that done in their own. But the stations 

 can distribute only a few of their publications outside of their own 

 State limits, nor could busy practical men utilize all of the hundreds of 

 bulletins and reports which appear each year if they had them. The 

 technical publications of the Office of Experiment Stations can not be 

 made to serve the purpose without changes which would seriously in- 

 jure their usefulness for the purposes for which they were intended, and 

 without an expense too great to be assumed. 



This lack is being felt more and more. The Office of Experiment 

 Stations has attempted to meet it by planning a series of Farmers' 

 Bulletins, to contain brief, clear, i)ractical statements of the more im- 

 portant results of investigations in the several States and to be dis- 

 tributed in large numbers to farmers throughout the Union. Two 

 numbers have been issued. It is hoped that the means at the disposal 

 of the Department will suffice for a liberal support of these bulletins. 



Farmers' Bulletin No, 1 was entitled "The What and Why of Ag- 

 ricultural Experiment Stations." Its purpose, as expressed in the title, 

 was to explain what experiment stations are and how they are useful ; 

 to give an outline of the history of the movement in this country and in 

 Europe ; and to show the preeent status of the American stations. An 

 edition of 50,000 was printed. Calls for 25,000 more were received 

 from stations which desire to distribute them to their constituents in 

 their respective States, but the means available for printing were not 

 sufficient to meet the demand. Farmers' Bulletin No. 2 is entitled " The 

 Work of the Experiment Stations." It contains short articles on better 

 cows for the dairy, fibrin and bacteria in milk, alfalfa, silos and silage, 

 and co-operative field experiments with fertilizers. An edition of 150,000 

 has been printed, of which 75,000 copies are to be placed at the disposal 

 of members of Congress. The rest are to be distributed from the 

 Department and stations. It is the purpose to supply these to the cor- 

 respondents of the stations so far as circumstances will allow. Several 

 stations have furnished this office with copies of their mailing lists aud 

 the bulletins will be sent to them. Stations desiring Farmers' Bulletin 

 No. 2 for circulation are invited to confer with this Office. 



