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might be reached through the local press who do not read either the station's bulletin 

 or any agricultural journal. It is difficult to secure the co-operation of the local 

 journals, however, as most of them receive their general news either already printed, 

 in the form of " patent insides," or in stereotype plates, and do not care to be at the 

 extra expense of " setting up " any matter not exclusively local. After several fu- 

 tile attempts to secure republication of extracts from the bulletin or notices of its 

 contents, in papers of this class, by sending them the bulletin printed on one side of 

 the paper only so as to be in convenient form for clipping, and by sending brief sum- 

 maries of its contents, the following plan was adopted: 



The Central Press Association of Columbus, Ohio, is a " plate "house, supplying a 

 large number of local papers. This association proposed to print weekly a digest of 

 the station's bulletin or of those of other stations, and to permit the station to re- 

 print from its plates a special newspaper bulletin, to be sent to such journals as are 

 not included in its own subscription list. The only exclusive privilege insisted upon 

 by the association was that the matter under consideration should not be furnished 

 to any other " plate "or " inside " house, and that the Central Press Association should 

 have one week's priority iu publication. 



Under this arrangement the station sends to the Central Press Association on the 

 first of each week a digest of its own work or that of other stations to the extent of 

 about half an ordinary newspaper column. This is piablished that week in the weekly 

 journals subscribing to the Central Press Association, and at the end of the week some 

 seven hundred slips are struck off froiu plates furnished by the Central Press Associa- 

 tion and mailed as a special " Newspaper Bulletin " to the newspapers of the State. 



Thus far the plan is working satisfactorily. In addition to the large number of 

 journals that use the plates of the Central Press Association, a considerable number 

 republish the matter from the slips sent out — as large a number, we think, as have 

 ever published our work under any other arrangement. 



Utah College and Station. — A boarding-house with accommodations for seventy- 

 five students is being erected. Tests of wagons, plows, and cultivators have been 

 made with the dynamometer. Experiments in animal nutrition are planned. 



Virginia Station. — H. M. Magruder has been appointed to take charge of the re- 

 cently established substation, and to supervise experiments carried on outside of the 

 station. 



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBEE 1, 1890. 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1890. 

 Division of Botany: 



Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, No. 3, November 1, 

 1890.— List of Plants Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in 1890, in Lower Cali- 

 fornia and Western Mexico. 

 Division of Entomology: 



Periodical Bulletin, Vol. Ill, No. 3, November, 1890.— Insect Life. 

 Division of Statistics : 



Report No. 79 (new series), November, 1890. — Report on Yield of Crops per Acre; 

 Freight Rates of Transportation Companies. 

 Office op Experiment Stations : 



Experiment Station Record, Vol. II, No. 4, November, 1890. 



