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carried on during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915. Meteorological data and 

 accounts of the extensive tests with field and garden crops, live-stock operations, 

 and other lines of work are abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Twenty-seventh Annual Beport of North Dakota Station, 1916 (North 

 Dakota 8fa. Rpt. 1916 [pt. 1], pp. 21, figs. 3). — Part 1 of this report contains the 

 orpianization list, a report of the director, and a financial statement as to the 

 Federal funds for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. The experimental work 

 reported is for the most part abstracted elsewhere in this issue. 



Monthly bulletin of the Western Washin^on Substation {WuHhingtfm Sta., 

 West. Wash. 8ta. Mo. Bui., 4 (1916), Nos. 9, pp. 16, figs. 3; 10, pp. 16, figs. S).— 

 These numbers contain brief artices on the following subjects : 



No. 9. — The Winter Sclw^, by W. A. Linklater; The U.se of Fertilizers to 

 Increase Crop Production, by E. B. Stookey (see p. 425) ; Suggestions in Potato 

 Crowing, by J. L. Stahl ; and Concerning Poultry P"'eed Values, by Mr. and 

 -Mrs. G. R. Shoup (see p. 473). 



No. 10. — Standardizing of Land Clearing, by I. D. Charlton; Reducing the 

 Cost of Milk Production, by H. L. Blanchard (see p. 473) ; Dairy Farm Cropping 

 System, by K. B. Stookey ; Rhubarb Culture, by J. L. Stahl ; Canker, Chicken 

 Pox, and Roup, by Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Shoup; A New Phase of the Ra.spberry 

 Rust, by A. Frank; and Some Meat-curing Methods. 



Principles on which should be established the mutual relations of experi- 

 mental and extension institutions, I. V. Emelianov (O Narhalak'i, na Kotorikh 

 Dolzhni SIroitsili V zaiinootnoHJicniia Oh-fhchcstrcnvoagrononiichetikikh i Opyt- 

 iiikh OrganizatyJi. Kharkof: Kharkov. Obla.i(. Sclnk. Khnz. Opiitn. Sta., 1915, 

 pp. 6). — The author believes that three systems of organization are possible: 

 (1) The complete fusion of the experimental and extension institutions in pro- 

 gram and organization; (2) the partial fusion of the institutions, with separate 

 functions devolving on each of them; and (3) the independent organization of 

 each and a strict distribution of functions. The vitality and value of the local 

 extension work depends on its agreement and dose solidarity with experimental 

 studies, but it is thought that in view of the great qualitative difference in the 

 problems and the method of work, the basis of such solidarity should be the 

 independence of each of the institutions and a clear division of the functions 

 of experimentation and instruction. Existing conditions in the region insure 

 the possibility of intercourse and close cooperation of extension workers and 

 experimenters, but it is deemed ne-essary to develop and maintain in the future 

 ways and means for such cooperation. It is also thought that tiie district ex- 

 periment stations should organize a division for the study of the economics of 

 the husbandry of the region. 



