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Binding 
About four hundred volumes, mainly periodicals, were sent to 
the binder. An equal number of volumes can be taken off the 
shelves for binding just as soon as funds become available. 
It would be of great advantage to have funds available for 
binding some time during the spring, so that books for the binder 
could be prepared and sent away just before vacations, when they 
would be least needed. This would also enable the librarian to 
systematize her work to much better advantage, instead of having 
this added work at a time when new accessions and reports re- 
quire so much attention, 
Periodicals 
Forty-eight new periodicals have been added, mainly through 
exchange, making the total number of periodicals received 306. 
All foreign periodicals have been received regularly except those 
printed in German 
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State Publications 
The increase in the number of periodicals received at the 
Garden is partly due to the fact that the following agricultural 
experiment stations were added to our exchange list during 1917: 
Tuskegee, Alabama; Colorado; Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba; 
Georgia; Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Station, Honolulu; Rio Piedras, 
Porto Rico; Texas; Virginia, Truck Experiment Station; and 
the Western Washington Experiment Station. 
The library now receives each month from the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, States Relation Service, a “List of station 
publications received by the office of experiment stations.” By 
means of this list we are enabled, each month, to check the pub- 
lications issued by the experiment stations with those received 
by us directly from them, and in this way to follow up the n miss- 
ing numbers. 
Library Assistants 
During part of the year Miss Tikiob assisted regularly for one 
hour a day. In addition to her stenographic work she has helped 
tvpewrite the shelf list and pamphlet cards. This work has since 
