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provided for the printing by the State of 20,000 copies of 

 Part III. (technical), of which 15,000 copies were to be bound 

 with the report of the State Board of Agriculture, and for the 

 printing of 16,000 copies of Part IV. (the general or popular 

 part of the report), all of which were for the use of the trustees 

 and were distributed by the station. 



Besides the annual report of the station in two parts (which 

 was printed by the State) the station published a series of 

 bulletins, the cost of publication being covered by the use of 

 general station funds. 



The amended law, in so far as it relates to station publica- 

 tions, is as follows : — 



Section 1. The annual report of the trustees of the Massachusetts 

 agi'icultural college may be printed in four parts, namely, . . . part 

 three to consist of the report of the director of the Massachusetts agri- 

 cultural experiment station and other officers, and part four to consist 

 of the detailed reports of the experiment station. 



Section 2. . . . ; of part three there may be printed as many copies, 

 not exceeding twenty thousand, as may be requested by the director of 

 the experiment station for the use of said trustees; and of part four, 

 which may be offered for publication in instalments to be known as 

 bulletins, there may be printed as many copies of each instalment as 

 shall be requested by the said du-ector, but in no case to exceed twenty 

 thousand copies, for the use of the said trustees; and in addition there 

 may be printed for the use of the state board of agxiculture as many 

 copies of each instalment, not exceeding twenty-five hundred, as may 

 be requested by the said board. 



The law as it now stands brings the method of publication 



'into conformity with that recommended by the Association of 



American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, and 



at the same time the new method secures a number of other 



important advantages : — 



1. Results are published promptly in bulletin form instead 

 of being held until the end of the year. 



2. The size of the edition of each bulletin and report can 

 be fixed by the director, and can, therefore, be much more 

 closely adapted to the need than under the old law, which 

 definitely specified the number. Under the new law editions 

 have varied from 2,900 to 20,000. 



