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The addresses of parties outside of Massachusetts are arranged 

 alphabetically under the several states and countries. 



Mailing List. — On completion of the revision, it was found 

 that the number of live addresses was as follows : — 



Residents of Massachusetts, ..... 14,(512 



Residents of other States, ...... 1,720 



Residents of foreign countries, ..... 169 



16,501 



In addition, the station uses the Washington mailing list, 

 which includes the addresses of those engaged in agricultural 

 college and experiment station work. The total number of 

 addresses in this list is about 2,000. 



The station also uses the following special lists for meteor- 

 ological reports, libraries, newspapers and exchanges : — 



Meteorological, ........ 260 



Libraries, . . . . . . . . .158 



Newspapers and exchanges, ...... 520 



During the past year an effort has been made to secure the 

 addresses of all prominent cranberry growers. These addresses 

 have for the most part been secured by writing to chairmen of 

 the boards of selectmen in towns in the cranberry district, and 

 to these men, most of whom prepared the lists promptly and 

 without charge, the thanks of the station are due. The number 

 of addresses in this list is 1,505. 



During the past year we have added substantially 1,000 ad- 

 dresses to our general mailing list. These additions have been 

 made in response to direct requests, and without solicitation 

 on our part. 



Publications. 



Our rapidly growing mailing list has already greatly increased 

 the costs of publication, and these costs must inevitably con- 

 tinue to increase with the constant additions to our lists. The 

 time is not far distant when additional money for publications 

 will be required. During the past year the publications of the 

 station have been as follows : — 



