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the field of the Department. In order to avoid duplication of 

 effort and to make the publications of the Department and the 

 college harmonize, the following agreement was entered into 

 in the early summer of 1922. 



It is agreed between the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College that, in the field of publications, 

 such subjects as are primarily promotional of agricultural interest, or which 

 are intended primarily to present the opportunities for agricultural enter- 

 prise in this State, shall be considered to be within the province of the 

 Department of Agriculture, and that publications which are primarily 

 instructional shall be considered to be within the province of the college. 



That in general the college shall confine its publications to the furnish- 

 ing of definite subject-matter information on agricultural and home- 

 making subjects; and that the Department shall restrict the scope of its 

 publication acti\'ities to the promotion of agricultural interest, and to 

 presenting the opportunities for farming in Massachusetts. 



This agreement shall in no way be understood to limit the scope of the 

 research publications of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



Whenever either the Department or the college feels it necessary to 

 publish a subject that is obviously outside its province as herein defined, 

 whichever party is responsible for the publication shall propose that it be 

 jointly issued, bearing the names of both the Department and the college 

 on the title-page. No joint publication shall be issued without the full 

 consent of both parties to the implied co-operative responsibility. 



This agreement is entered into for the sake of closer co-operation be- 

 tween the Department and the College, and in order that duplication of 

 effort may be reduced to the smallest possible minimum. It is intended 

 to clarify and define fields of work, not at all to hamper or embarrass either 

 party in its work. It is realized that there may frequently be border-line 

 pubhcations on subjects difficult to limit by precise definition, but it is 

 expected that the spirit of the understanding here indicated will assist in 

 satisfactorily placing all such subjects. 



Publications in the Years 1920 to 1922. 



With the exigencies of the war the secretary of the then 

 Board of Agriculture published more than a half dozen different 

 types of publications, most of them having to do with teaching 

 how to grow crops, how to obtain maximum animal production, 

 and how to market. The "Agriculture of Massachusetts" 

 lists these publications. 



The change from the Board of Agriculture to the present 

 Department, with the administration vested in a Commissioner, 

 occupied about two years of time, and necessitated legislation 



