18 p:xrERLAlENT STATION. [Jan. 



Xu. l.'}(). Inspection of Commercial Feed Stuffs, 1911. 



Tc'clniical Bulletin No. 2. The Graft Union. 



Teclmieal Bulletin No. 3. The Blossom End Rot of Tuuintocs. 



Index to bulletins and annual reports of the Hatch Exi>erimeut Station 



previous to June, 1895. 

 Index to bulletins and annual rei:)orts, 18SS-1907. 

 Annual reports: 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, 



21st, Part II., 22d, Parts I. and II. 



So far as our publications treat primarily of the results of 

 station observation, experiment and research, they are to be 

 looked upon as a necessary and important feature of station 

 activity, — indeed, to be the crowning result of such activity ; 

 but the demand for bulletins and circulars of information of a 

 general character, already wides})read, is most active, insistent 

 and growing, and the force of circumstances has seemed to com- 

 pel us to make at least some effort to meet it. To fully do so 

 has been imjDossible ; indeed, must probably be recog-nizcd as in 

 the very nature of things always likely to remain so, since noth- 

 ing less than a complete library covering every conceivable agri- 

 cultural topic would enable us to meet the demand. 



A considerable share of the contents of the popular part of 

 our annual report (Part II.), most of our circulars and some of 

 our bulletins have, however, aimed to furnish information of a 

 more or less general character on topics of immediate interest 

 to the public. These papers have, it is true, been based upon 

 our own observations and experiments in so far as possible, and 

 to that extent are to be regarded as legitimate station ])ublic-a- 

 tions. To a considerable extent, however, they are of a general 

 character. United States funds cannot be used in their publica- 

 tion, and since the demands for other purposes upon the rela- 

 tively small appropriation which comes to the station from the 

 State are heavy, and since, further, furnishing this literature is 

 rather extension than experiment, provision to carry the costs 

 should be made in the extension department of the institution. 



CirntJaiion of Fuhlicailons. — In accordance with an act of 

 ourXegislature Part I. of our annual report is printed with the 

 report of the secr(>tary of the State Board of Agriculture, and 

 those on the mailing list of that Board will receive this publica- 

 tion. Five thousand copies of Part I. of our annnal report also 



