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issued bimonthly in future, and will contain brief synoptical notes 

 regarding each publication listed. It will bo in the form of the 

 monthly list of publications of this Department, which it will supple- 

 ment so far as the station reports and bulletins are concerned. The 

 latter are noAV so numerous that few people can expect to receive them 

 all, and moreover the widespread distribution of complete tiles would 

 result in the waste of many bulletins. The new list will enable 

 farmers' institute workers, agricultural editors, various specialists, 

 and others interested in the work of the stations to select such bulletins 

 as are of particular interest and value to them. 



In order that the list may be issued promptly and maj^ be complete, 

 it is very desirable that the experiment stations should send copies of 

 their publications to this Ofiice as soon as issued. The plan at present 

 followed at some stations of sending out several bulletins together 

 frequently results in considerable delay. The adoption of a uniform 

 plan of mailing the separate bulletins to the Office as soon as they are 

 received from the printer, would materially facilitate not onl}" the 

 preparation of the new liht, but the review of the station work in 

 general. 



