The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-10
PUBLICATIONS ON
FARM INTERESTS
Changes and Reforms in Those
Of the Government An
nounced by Secretary.
SCIENTIFIC MATTER CURTAILED
Journal OF Research and Crop
Reporter to 30 Replaced
by Bulletins.

Tho announcement comes from
Washington that after painstaking in
NcstiSation Of the publications of the
department Of Agriculture Secretary
Houston has determined upon tho |
aboiitioii Of some Of tho time honorcd
publications Of that department and |
me dissemination and better digtribu-
zion Of the balance Members Of Con
Bfcss nave long criticized the technical 1
nature Of many government publica-
tons. particularly III this Department.,
which have been sent broadcast over
the 'aEd. from time to time and the
reform Instituted By Secretary Hous-
ton viii not only be welcomed by them
but By the lay readers who have re
ccived them.
Al the beginning OF the Investigation !
II was found that an independent 1
Eeries of bulletins and circulars had |
been published for years by each one /
CT tho thirteen bureaus divisions ana /
ofhces OF the department. These have 4
all now been superseded by the Jour I
nal ~ Research. for printing scientific |
and technical matter, and by "A series I
Of departmental bulletins in popular /
language, both for selected and gen I
eral distribution. This reform con
templates discrimination OF the gen
cral distribution or highly technical
matter and increase in the litera- I
ture ~ a more popular nature, both as /
Tncnt D.: the department, with respect I
to the radical changes in publications, /
says:
The highly scientific matter hereto
fore published indiscriminately IN bul .
lctin3 and circulars VIII hereafter be .
published only in the newly established +
Journal Of Research which VIII 81 u.s.
sued about once month. 1t viii bc
royal octave OF the scientific magazine .
type. from seventy-nvc to one hun
b1r To
tute volume.
Such OF the matter In the Journal as
seems to merit additional circulation /
may be issued in the form Of reprints (
or separates. The Journal. for tho I
present AZ least, Viii be limited 10 the (
publication OF the results OF research (
made by tho various bureaus, divisions I,
and Offices. but IL may be extended L /
include the scientific research work o. T
the state agricultural experiment sta
tons. In which event two editors repre-
scntinE these stations will be added to /.
the editorial committee Extensive t
scientific articles. embodying n COM
l,lete report Of research Investigations &
viii be considered AS nonotra pms, and
may be published as supplements to
the Journal
Permission will be given TO spe-
cialists TO publish technical reports or +
even monoFra phs IN journals ~ scien {
,inc societies or technical magazines /
specializing III highly restricted fields I
~ scientific cndcnvor. The Journal ,
viii y" distributed free TO agricultural ]
colleges. technical schools. experiment !
stations. libraries OF large universities /
and certain government repositories +
ana Institutions making suitable ex-
changes, also to restricted list OF !
scientists. Copies OF the Journal VIII !
he sold to miscellaneous applicants by /.
the superintendent OF documents. Coy I
eminent Printing Office, and possibly (
Ain annual subscription price viii be
afnxed as is done with the EXpcrmi /
ineut station Record
Crup Reporter Discontinued.
The Monthly Crop Reporter Will no I
longer be published. The crop stats
ties viii be collected as heretofore, and +
Geographic and news summaries Of
these statistics VIII continue 20 be
issued to the press. The printed Crop
Reporter was discontinued because IL
did not bring the information into the
hands OF the recipients until from ten
10 seventeen days after the really i'm
portant news had been circulated hy
telegraph and printed in the daily
press throughout the United States and +
Europe, the statistical information
therefore, reaching the actual crop
correspondent and through him the
local producer TOO late TO be OF p-ac-
teal service
AS a partial substitute for the printed
Crop Reporter Weekly News Letter 4
TO crop correspondents Will be issued 4
in typewriter or other form. This can
be prepared and put into the mails /,
sooner than was possible with the Re +
porter. 1t is believed that the Weekly /
News will be far more timely than no
tees issued heretofore only once a
month. Its circulation Will be limited
to Official crop correspondents. The I
News Letter will contain summaries OF
more important discoveries and recon-
lnendations of the various bureaus
divisions and Offices.
The Yearbook viii be restricted to
articles Of the magazine type, which. |
it is believed. win add greatly 10 the
popularity and value of the volume. of
which 5000 copies are printed and |
distributed annually.
Farmers Bulletins.
The series OF farmers bulletins will
letns is TO tell the people how to do
important things The bulletins will /
contain practical, concise and specific |
and constructional statements with re-
gard TO matters relating 10 farming.
stock raising. fruit growing, etc |
Under the new plan the bulletins will
lie reduced in size TO from sixteen to
twenty pages. and will deal particularly
with conditions in restricted sections /
rather than attempt, heretofore to
cover the entire country.
The publication of bulletins dealing
with foreign crop statistics will be /.
discontinued Material of this char
acter when deemed important Will be |
furnished to the press for the infor-
NATION Of the public
Consideration is being given to the !
discontinuancc OF certain annual re- !
ports of bureaus required by law
10 be printed, with the belief that
much of the matter therein contained
is unnecessary. while certain portions