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based his remarks on tests made in the laboratory of samples sent in by 

 various editors. Wide differences in the cost and value of these samples were 

 revealed by the comparison. 



Bristow Adams, of Cornell University, presented a comprehensive discussion 

 of An Information Service in Connection With Extension Work. He gave a 

 detailed review of the evolution of the information work at Cornell University, 

 where the attempt is now made to reach by means of reading courses, press 

 service, etc., the farmer not yet in touch with the field man in extension work. 

 In the matter of publications, direct and intimate relation is maintained be- 

 tween the bulletins, memoirs, etc., and press notices in extension work. Press 

 notices are sent out about the bulletins, especially to the county or counties 

 to which those of a local nature pertain, to fruit growers in the case of a 

 bulletin pertaining to them, etc. Each notice emphasizes the fact that the com- 

 plete bulletin can be had on application. The use of the term " publicity 

 work " is deprecated, as misleading. The right kind of information service is 

 regarded as that farthest removed from publicity and an advertising prop- 

 aganda, which is its own undoing, whereas the service which seeks only to 

 help the farmer will be permanent. 



The program was concluded with an illustrated lecture by F. J. Trezise, of 

 Chicago, on What is Required to Make a Typographically and Mechanically 

 Good Bulletin. This was an instructive discussion from an expert point of 

 view of such questions as measure balance, proportional margins, shape har- 

 mony, use of borders and decorated margins, tone harmony, and use of cuts, 

 type, and harmony in border arrangements. 



A special feature of the convention was the exhibit of bulletins and other 

 illustrative material, contributed by 18 institutions and this Deparment. 

 Information and press material preponderated in the exhibits, but several of 

 the institutions, notably Wisconsin and Iowa, also illustrated the evolution of 

 the regular bulletin in a striking way. 



The constitution submitted by a special committee was adopted. Among the 

 resolutions agreed to were those memorializing the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations as to the desirability of further 

 developing editorial work, establishing full editorial authority, and otherwise 

 improving its status and dignity, favoring the use of the term "information 

 service " in preference to that of " publicity," and suggesting the need of means 

 for utilizing the publications of one institution by others. 



Officers for the ensuing year were selected as follows: President, F. W. 

 Beckman of Iowa ; vice president, F. H. Jeter of North Carolina ; secretary- 

 treasurer, B. E. Powell of Illinois; and additional members of the executive 

 committee, C. A. Whittle of Georgia, and K A. Crawford of Kansas, 



The executive committee is empowered under the new constitution to decide 

 as to the place of the next annual meeting. 



Vocational Agricultural Education in New Tork. — The regents of the Univer- 

 sity of the State of New York have voted to reorganize the present Vocational 

 Schools Division into a Division of Agricultural and Industrial Education with 

 A. D. Dean as director. 



A recent act of the state legislature authorizes the board of supervisors of 

 any county outside of the City of N«w York to establish a farm school for the 

 purpose of giving instruction in the trades and in industrial, agricultural, and 

 home making subjects to children of the county between the ages of eight and 

 eighteen. Each of such schools may receive annually from the State $1,000 

 and an additional $200 for each teacher employed therein for a period of 36 

 weeks during each school year whose entire time is given to the instruction 

 of pupils in the school, provided the school has at least 15 pupils actually in 



