1914.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 11a 



The general list, as will be seen, includes 13,325 names. It 

 is felt that sending all publications except those of a highly 

 technical character (which we always give a much more re- 

 stricted circulation) to all the persons on the list doubtless in- 

 volves considerable waste. Our agriculture is highly specialized 

 in many sections. Our publications on specialized branches of 

 agriculture are of interest only to those engaged in them, and 

 it is our policy to increase the number of special lists with a 

 view to a better and more economical, and at the same time 

 more effective, circulation of our various publications. 



Extension Service. 

 The experiment station is still called upon for a large amount 

 of service which is really of the character of extension. The 

 extension service of the college, under Prof. W. D. Hurd, is now 

 handling an enormous number of requests for information and 

 advice ; but the appreciation of and call for such assistance has 

 gro"\ATi with such rapidity that there has been no appreciable de- 

 crease in the number of calls upon the specialists of the station 

 staff. Correspondence still makes heavy demands upon their 

 time. They still accept many invitations for public lectures 

 and demonstrations all over the State. It is the policy in the 

 institution that this work shall be done mainly by members of 

 the extension service staff. The specialists of the experiment 

 station must naturally always be in demand for addresses on 

 certain subjects, but since it is recognized that meeting many 

 engagements of this character interferes greatly with research 

 efficiency, such addresses should be restricted within narrow 

 limits. 



N^EEDS OF THE StATIOX. 



Attention has been called to the fact that the gradual increase 

 in the amount appropriated by the State for the support of the 

 experiment station is not adequate ; but as the act of the Legis- 

 lature making provision for such increase was made with a 

 fairly definite understanding that further increase would not 

 be asked for within the period covered by the act, it would be 

 contrary to sound policy to ask an increase in appropriation 



