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Wilson Company, indexes the publications of the departments 

 of agriculture, of the agricultural colleges, and of the experiment 

 stations of other States. This index also includes the leadiner 

 agricultural periodicals of the country. 



The interest in things agricultural, aroused during the war, 

 was manifested by the increase in the number of patrons, and 

 has been well sustained this last year. In fact, there has been a 

 decided increase in the number of steady borrowers from the 

 library. Most of these are men engaged in some commercial 

 line of work in the city, but who are looking forward to owning 

 a small farm of their own later on. Meanwhile they are reading 

 all they can find on the subject of farming. The demand has 

 been mostly for books dealing with fruit culture, live-stock 

 raising, especially swine, poultry culture, beekeeping and 

 vegetable growing. 



The question of more room for the library is a very urgent 

 one. Aside from the fact that there is no place where one may 

 take advantage of the facilities of the library for study or re- 

 search work, there is no room for the proper storage of the 

 publications that are received daily. As this is the logical li- 

 brary for the people in this part of the State to look up agri- 

 cultural matters, both scientific and popular, and as the depart- 

 ment spends quite a little money and time in collecting the 

 material and making it available for the public, better library 

 space should be provided within a short time, especially if it is 

 intended to keep up this line of work. At the present time 

 many valuable publications and books of historical interest are 

 in a deplorable state, due to the lack of room. 



Trespass Signs. 

 Five thousand cloth posters, containing the extracts from the 

 trespass laws, were printed the first of the year at a cost of 

 $686.69, but the supply was exhausted the first of August. To 

 meet the demand, 2,800 paper signs were printed at a total cost 

 of §20.81. Two hundred and eleven cloth signs were sold to 

 persons requesting more than their allotment of five, $21.83 

 being thus realized. At first 6 cents a poster was charged, but 

 on May 1 it was necessary to increase the price to 13 cents to 

 cover the cost of printing. 



