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run off on a copying machine as to be printed. It is our custom to 

 send out press bulletins a week ahead of the desired time of publication 

 and to clearly state a date when they are released for publication in 

 weeklies and dailies, thus avoiding premature publication in dailies. 



Annual Reports. — Many stations are publishing only a financial 

 and brief executive report, while others are giving a full report of 

 the work of the various departments without any republication of 

 bulletins. The Connecticut Station has an excellent custom of pub- 

 lishing its report in parts, making the reports of each department a 

 separate portion of the annual report, so that it can be printed and 

 circulated separately. There is a good deal of work done at every 

 station which should be reported for the use of station workers 

 much more fully than it is desirable to do in a bulletin, and it would 

 seem that the station report might form a satisfactory place for a 

 full report of the work of each department. This report may give all 

 those scientific details, descriptions of methods used, etc., which 

 would have no place in a bulletin for the farmer and which are not 

 acceptable to most of the technical periodicals. The annual report 

 need have but little reference to the popular taste ; it is not prepared 

 for the farmer. But it should be in good form and carefully organ- 

 ized. 



The typography should be that ordinarily used in good book-making, 

 and should merely make clear the relation of the different parts of 

 the report without any attempt to attract the eye. The various lines 

 of work in progress and to be reported upon should be briefly men- 

 tioned at the beginning of the report and each line of work should 

 then be treated separately. In the discussion of an insect to be re- 

 ported upon fully, its past history may well be considered in some 

 detail, and full descriptions should be given under the various stages, 

 with the details of its life history and a complete bibliography. In 

 other words, a full and complete report may well be published in an 

 annual report ; but it is unnecessary to go into excessive details on 

 any of the fine points, for even the entomologist wearies of this, and 

 frequent summaries will command his attention and should be used 

 freely. Tabulating the results is always helpful in placing a large 

 amount of information in a small amount of space, where it can be 

 readily grasped by the reader. 



The illustrations in the annual report should be prepared so as to 

 show the details of the insect under discussion and need not be pre- 

 pared with any reference to their artistic effect except so far as 

 they clearly illustrate the desired point. They may well be assembled 



