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EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



bulletins printed. The financial outcome as affecting the State 

 treasury is shown in the table. For a full understanding of the 

 results it is necessary to point out that under the amended law 

 the station is entirely relieved of expenditure for bulletins, — 

 an expenditure which in the last year under the old law 

 amounted to rather more than S700, as pointed out in the 

 twenty-seventh annual report. 



1 Includes $239.60, the cost of the report of the cranberry substation, which will be bound with 

 the 1917 report. 



During the past year a change in policy affecting the publica- 

 tion of circulars has gone into effect. Under the new plan 

 circulars, except such as relate to the administrative work of 

 the experiment station, are published by the extension service 

 of the college, even although the contents may relate almost 

 exclusively to the results of station investigations. This change 

 appears to be in line with our general policy as regards the divi- 

 sion of work between different divisions of the institution, since 

 the extension service is the branch of the institution designed 

 especially to carry its message to the public. Attention should 

 be called to the fact that the principal use of extension circu- 

 lars, as is the case with experiment station circulars, is as a 

 means of giving information in connection with correspondence 

 and inquiries. The circulars -are not sent to a mailing list, and 

 they will be used as well by the experiment station in connec- 

 tion with correspondence as by the extension service, though 

 published by the lat.^r. 



