EDITORIAL. 1035 



The advjintaoc of sucli sumuuiries and of discussing the accumulated 

 results in the light of later information will be readily apparent. It 

 serves as a convenient means for farmers to get a clear grasp of the 

 work and its present status; and it also relieves the demand upon the 

 station for its earlier reports, which are rapidly becoming exhausted. 

 It places its work permanently on record in convenient form for 

 reference. 



Not every station could atford the time for such a sunmiary perhaps; 

 but some such periodical sunnuing up of the work will be necessary 

 as a permanent record, particularly where a station has accumulated a 

 large amount of work on a variety of subjects. It is often a good 

 thing for a station itself to try to point out exactly the ground it has 

 covered, and the stage it has reached in its investigations. It clarifies 

 the ideas of the workers and helps them to get their bearing in their 

 work. If this could be done in some lines of experiments that have 

 been allowed to drift along in a time-honored way, without even a 

 careful summing up of the yearly results, chiefly on account of the 

 supposed value of their cumulative results, it is quite possible we 

 should lose our reverence for them and evolve something more 

 promising. 



The requirement of an annual report is a wise one, as well for the 

 station and its workers as for the general public. The decennial sum- 

 mary has many things to commend it, and will become the more 

 important with the flight of time. 



The second editorial venture to which it is desired to call attention is 

 that of the agricultural college and experiment station of Tennessee 

 which recently undertook the editorial management of a daily news- 

 paper, Prof. Andrew M. Soule, the director, appearing in the role of 

 editor of the Knoxmlle Sentinel for its issue of June 3d. The object 

 was to attract attention to the work of the college and station, and 

 the immediate occasion was the East Tennessee Farmers' Convention, 

 which held its final session on that date. 



Many of the papers presented at the convention were reproduced, 

 and to these were added various articles relating to agricultural 

 education, the work of the experiment station, and the applica- 

 tion of the results in practice to improve Tennessee agriculture, 

 written by members of the station stafl'. An article by Prof. C. S. 

 Plumb, of Ohio State University, summarized the results of feeding 

 trials with hogs, and one by M. A. Carleton, of this Department, 

 discussed the improvement of winter cereals for the South, 



The editorial page was essentially agricultural throughout. There 

 were editorials on Agricultural Opportunities in Tennessee, The 

 Farm Home, The Value of Good Roads, More Reading Farmers, 

 Sweet Clover and Alfalfa Bacteria, and Trained Farm Foremen in 



