191G.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 9a 



Mailing Lists. 

 The mailing lists which we maintain and the numbers in the 

 several lists are shown in the following table: — 



Residents of Massachusetts (general), 12,237 



Residents of other States (general), 953 



Residents of other States (general and technical), .... 1,333 



Exchange, 212 



Beekeepers, 4,147 



Newspapers, 507 



Cranberry, 1,602 



Meteorological, 393 



Feed, 671 



Fertilizer, 54 



Greenhouse vegetable growers, 1,850 



Onion growers, 107 . 



Massachusetts florists, 1,100 



Miscellaneous special lists, 107 



Massachusetts libraries, 187 



Out of State hbraries, 212 



United States Department of Agriculture, official list, ^. . . 3,627 



Total, 29,2992 



During the year there has been a total increase of 967 ad- 

 dresses, — about 3 per cent. 



The Needs of the Station. 



Particular attention was called in my last annual report to 

 three pressing needs: additional land, provision for work in 

 more direct and closer touch with the market-garden interests 

 or the State, and an appropriation for experimental demonstra- 

 tions in various localities. 



■ Additional Land. — The first need has been in part met by 

 the lease for a term of seven years, with the option of purchase 

 any time before the end of that period, of a farm containing 

 rather over seventy acres, about half of which is improved 

 land and the balance unimproved pasture. This farm, though 



1 Publications are not as a rule sent to all on this list, but only to directors, libraries and 

 specialists likely to be interested. 



2 Of this total, under different lists are included 261 foreign addresses. 



