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can be looked to to take it up and provide a place for it in the general 

 scheme, from the common school to the higher institutions of learn- 

 ing, and the interest and support of teachers can he invoked. 



This result is a most desirable one from the experiment station stand- 

 point. A better educated rural population will be better able to make 

 use of the experiment station work. The highest use of the experi- 

 ment station must depi^nd upon an educated constituency. 



This issue concludes the regular abstract numbers of volume four- 

 teen. Number twelve will, as usual, be devoted to the subject and 

 name index to the current Aolume. This is now well under way and 

 will be issued as speedily as possible. 



The revision of the manuscript of the general index to the first 

 twelve volumes of the record has proved a more formidable and time- 

 consuming task than was anticipated. Tiie work has not been allowed 

 to lag, however, but has been pushed forward unremittingly during 

 the past winter and spring. It is a pleasure to state that this index is 

 now" approaching completion and will soon be ready for the printer. 



