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seedsmen call upon us for work of that character, our policy 

 would be the same as in reference to tests for germination and 

 purity. 



Mailing Lists. 



The persons on our general lists and receiving our publica- 

 tions regularly may be classified as follows : — 



Residents of Massaeliusetts, . . . . . . 14,705 



Residents of other States, ...... 2,045 



Residents of otliei- countries, 174 



16,924 



During the year we have made up as full a list of bee keepers 

 in the State as possible. Most of the addresses had been col- 

 lected by Burton N. Gates, apiculturist, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and this list was very kindly jilaced at 

 our disposal. We have made several additions as a result of 

 correspondence and the list is now probably fairly complete. 



We have made a special effort during the past year to secure 

 the co-operation of the libraries of the State in preserving files 

 of our publications, in order that they may be accessible for 

 consultation in all parts of the State. Circular letters were 

 sent to all libraries, offering to make up as complete a set of 

 station publications for each as could be got together, calling- 

 attention to the fact that such sets must in the future be valuable 

 for consultation, and offering to place the libraries upon our 

 mailing list. We received many favorable replies, but in a 

 number of instances the libraries stated that they felt obliged 

 to decline to undertake the completion and preservation of a 

 file of station publications on account of lack of suitable ac- 

 commodations for preserving them. As a result of our cor- 

 respondence, however, we added 175 libraries to our mailing 

 list, and we made up and sent out to libraries a large number of 

 sets of publications which were made as nearly complete as 

 our stock of the different issues would allow. 



The following special mailing lists are now in use : — 



Cranberry growers, 1,507 



Bee keepers, 2,510 



Meteorological, 263 



Libraries, 333 



