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Pe ctines “gifticult te fina reeeteets that are en- 
itted for our use in out-of-door breeding work where | 
‘Lowe r pots have to remain in the-ground throughout the win- 
Mr. ‘Davis has been using pots furnished by the W. H. Elver— 
“Pottery Co., New Brighton, Pa., and states that he has used — 
m out. fof doors all winter, both above and below ground, filled | 
h soil without 2 single one having been broken. They are no ‘. 
"e costly than others but they are stronger and seem to bear 
re abuse than those of any make we have previously been able to 
ure. ; 
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Department of Agriculture, 
7 Washington, D. C. 
ae Office of Assistant Secretary. 
ad April 288, 1913. 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY 
ICHRNING DEPARTMENTAL PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND TECH- | 
me NICAL JOURNALS “4 

- Mr, Secretary: / 
Si For the last five or six years the appropriations for fa 
We work of the Department have grown rapidly, while the ap- 
‘opriations made for publishing results of investigations 
grown slowly. As a result there is a great deal more 
terial being accumulated which should be published than it 
practicable to publish, owing to lack of funds and for other 
@eons. Wor the last ten or twelve years it has been the pol- 
Mey of the Department not to permit any of its technical work ; 
fe be published outside, with the result that there has been i 
20 siderable stagnation ‘and some rather important results have 
been lost through lack of timely publication. 7 
- It is believed that by taking advantage of Existing spec— a 
ized avenues of publication the usefulness cf a considerable 
at of scientific and technical work done by the Department 
d be increased and the financial strain, which is now@ «| 
lus handicap to the Department, would be practically removed. a 
is the practice of many institutions, as you know, using pub- ~ 
money, to permit publications of this kind in outside repu-~ — 
le journals, provided in all cases-proper credit is given to 
institution. I would therefore respectfully recommend that 
ifter that reports of technical research, designed particu- 
for the attention of scientists in other institutions, be 
hed in any scientific journal which is presumed to reach 
itisfactorily those scientists. In no case, however, - 
apa accept compensation for such articles. Manu- 
on scientific and technical journals should receive 7 
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