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regular teaching staff of the College of Agriculture, 

 somewliat over four hundred bulletins have been is- 

 sued up to 1919 that cover practically every phase of 

 the field of agriculture. Eecently a new series of 

 publications has been instituted known as the Me- 

 moirs that is devoted entirely to publications of a 

 research nature and contains much technical detail 

 that is useful to investigators and special students in 

 the same field, but it is not adapted to reading by the 

 general public as is the design of the regular station 

 bulletins. 



To carry the data accumulated by the experiment 

 stations and by the general agricultural investigations 

 to the farmer on tbe land, several agencies have been 

 called into existence. The earliest of these, outside 

 of the agricultural press which has long been a potent 

 factor, is the agricultural bulletin. These report the 

 results of special studies from time to time. How- 

 ever, special bulletins, while of large value, especially 

 to the person in general touch with the field of study, 

 do not altogether meet the need of the individual 

 who has not had special agricultural training. He 

 needs something to take the place of a well rounded 

 course of study. Often he has not been accustomed 

 to find such information in books that are now avail- 

 able dealing with nearly every phase of agriculture. 

 He, therefore, has use for general bulletins that dis- 

 cuss and explain in an untechnical way the several 

 fields of his work. These extend to the farmer the 

 information given in scliools and colleges of agricul- 

 ture and by a natural process of evolution are called 



