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card catalog for periodicals has been revised, completed and 
typed. All desired data concerning each journal may be seen by 
a glance at the card. 
Experiment Station Literature 
An intensive effort has been made to secure as complete files as 
possible of the bulletins, circulars and reports of the various state 
experiment stations throughout the country. Letters have been 
sent to the directors of all of these stations inviting them to send 
us regularly their current publications in exchange for current 
issues of the Garden Recorp, Contributions, and Leaflets. The 
response has been most gratifying, and exchange relations have 
now been set up with forty-four state experiment stations. Not 
only do we receive all of their current publications as issued, but 
the directors and librarians of these stations have shown the most 
courteous interest in filling out our sets of experiment station 
literature. Occasionally in exchange for back numbers of our 
publications, but much oftener by gift, we have obtained from ° 
these forty-four states bulletins, circulars and reports to the num- 
ber of 35 volumes, 10 pamphlets and 890 single numbers. This 
material covers a wide range of subjects, many of which are more 
or less closely correlated with the work of the Garden, and can be 
made fully available to readers by means of the admirable indexes 
issued on cards and in book form by the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Furthermore, through the medium of the 
States Relations Service at Washington, this library is now re- 
ceiving regularly the bulletins and reports of the experiment sta- 
tions at Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and Porto Rico. 
It is pleasant to state that last March, in response to our urgent 
request and representations to the United States Department of 
Agriculture, this library was made a regular depository for all 
Farmers: Bulletins. Since that time these bulletins have been 
mailed to us as soon as published. Not only do we have the 
advantage of receiving them two or three weeks earlier than 
when we apply by means of the checked Monthly List of Publica- 
tions, but the danger of the supply being exhausted before our 
application is received at Washington is obviated. 
