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the Journal of Economic Entomology^ issued bi-monthly and now 

 completing its tenth volume. This journal was first financed through 

 a stock company composed of members of the Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists, but in a few years was taken over completely 

 by that association. The Journal of Home Economics was estab- 

 lished by the American Home Economics Association in 1909, the 

 American Breeders^ Magazine^ subsequently the Journal of Heredity^ 

 by the American Breeders' Association in 1910, and Phytopathology 

 by the American Phytopathological Society in 1911. Of more recent 

 date may be mentioned the Journal of the Society of Agi'onomy, 

 which in 1913 replaced the Annual Proceedings of the American 

 Society of Agronomy, the Journal of the American Association of 

 Poultry Instructors starting in 1914, the Journal of the Association 

 of Official Agricultural Chemists beginning in 1915, Soil Science 

 founded by Rutgers College in 1916, and the Joumcd of Dairy 

 Science published by the American Society of Dairy Science begin- 

 ning with the current year. 



Nearly all of these journals, it will be noted, are under the man- 

 agement of a corresponding society. In addition to providing for 

 the publication of an increasing amount of original research, they 

 afford a convenient medium for the printing of the societies' pro- 

 ceedings and otherwise serve to keep members in closer touch with 

 matters of interest and promote the welfare of their respective 

 divisions of science. 



The establishment of the Journal of Agricultural Research by the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture in 1913, followed by the opening 

 of its columns to contributions from the stations in 1914 under a co- 

 operative arrangement with the Association of American Agricul- 

 tural Colleges and Experiment Stations, should also be referred to. 

 Unlike the topical journals, this publication is, of course, not re- 

 stricted to a single phase of agricultural science. The large and 

 steadily increasing number of contributions available for its use is 

 evidenced in part by the change, two years ago, from monthly to 

 weekly issues, attesting the amount and high grade of research now 

 at hand from agricultural institutions in this country. 



Meanwhile the stations have, of course, presented the results of 

 much of their technical work in bulletin form, both in the regular 

 series and in technical series, and workers have continued to employ 

 the journals of general science, such as the Journal of the American 

 Chemical Society^ the Journal of Biological Chemistry^ the Journal 

 of Bacteriology^ and the numerous botanical journals. Likewise 

 workers in this Department have in recent years availed themselves 

 quite largely of the privilege of utilizing non-Departmental publi- 

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