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pul)lic places. The cooperative societies now bein^ f<jrmed under 

 the auspices ol" the Bureau of Aj^riculture will be an elFective 

 means of spreading knowledge. 



The newspapers of the Islands appreciate the importance of 

 disseminating agricultural information, and are glad to cooperate 

 fully with the Bureaus of Agriculture and Education and the 

 College of Agriculture. 



The Agricnltural Recieic. — The Agricultural Review% the 

 official organ of the Bureau of Agriculture, has been a credit 

 to the Government and has given the Philippine Islands a 

 good name abroad. It has also served a good purpose at home 

 in promoting progress. Strong men cannot be induced to 

 accept positions in the Bureau of Agriculture unless they are 

 given an opportunity to publish to the world the results of 

 their studies, and the men now at work in the Islands cannot 

 do their best work without some such stimulus. Only this 

 year the United States Department of Agriculture found it 

 necessary to establish a Journal of Agricultural Science to serve 

 the" purpose in the United States that the Agricultural Review 

 serves in the Philippines. 



One thing that has given the scientific work of the Germans 

 and the French such commanding importance is the splendid 

 way in which the work has been reported in their journals. 

 We may learn a lesson of importance to the Philippines, however, 

 from the experience of the German and French scientists. 

 These scientists have long since abandoned the effort to meet 

 the needs of the farmer and the needs of the scientific worker 

 with the same publication. 



Three classes of material are at present published in the 

 Review. Articles of a simple nature intended for the benefit 

 of the Filipino farmer. In general, these articles are of no 

 interest outside of the Islands. The second class is material 

 which is of value to people in the Philippine Islands and in 

 fore^'gn countries as well. The third class is material of a 

 technical nature which is read by some people in the Philippine 

 Islands, but is mainly of interest to the readers in other 

 countries. 



The Review, as published to-day in both Spanish and English, 

 reaches not only the farmers of this generation, but also those 

 of the next, as represented by the students in the schools of 

 the Islands. It is sent to every municipality in the Archipelago ; 

 to every school above the primary grade; to various Govern- 

 ment officials stationed throughout the provinces who come into 

 contact with the people ; to all the newspapers of the Philippine 



