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Circular No. 8 gives a complete list of all the bulletins pub- 

 lished both by the State and the Hatch Experiment Stations, 

 as well as by the Massachusetts Agricultm-al Experiment Sta- 

 tion, up to the date of its issue in July last. In this list pub- 

 lications which are still available for general distribution are 

 indicated. 



The other circulars are for the most part designed for use in 

 answer to correspondence in relation to subjects with which 

 they deal. They cover subjects on which the station receives 

 frequent inquiries, and do so much more fully than would be 

 possible within the limits of a letter. 



The annual report of the station is printed by the State, and 

 furnished only in an edition of 6,000. It will not be possible, 

 therefore, to send this report even to all Massachusetts citizens 

 whose names are on our mailing lists. Fifteen thousand copies 

 of this report are, however, furnished to the secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, and are bound with his report, so 

 that it is hoped the report in this form may reach all those who 

 desire it. This plan of publication and distribution must, it 

 seems, mean that many parties in the State receive duplicate 

 copies of our reports. Clearly this is not economy, but we 

 are for the present constrained by a State law to the method 

 of publication outlined. An effort will be made during the 

 coming session of the Legislature to secure a change in the 

 law affecting our publications.^ 



Bulletins and Reports available for Free Distribution. 

 The supply of many of our reports and bulletins available for 

 free distribution has been exhausted, but those in the following 

 list will still be fiu"nished on application : — • 



Bulletins : — 



Glossaiy of fodder terms. 

 Fertilizer analyses. 



On the use of tuberculin (translated from Dr. Bang), 

 Analyses of concentrated feed stuffs. 

 Fertilizer analyses. 

 The imported elm-leaf beetle. 



Fertilizer analyses ; treatment of barnyard manure with absor- 

 bents ; trade values of fertilizing ingredients. 



1 Since writing the above report the Legislature has authorized the desired change. 



