"Good technical editors can go far these days towards actually protecting the job of the scientist and defending the cause of worthwhile scientific research. Let them rise to the occasion."
"Just as the 1950s served as the formative period for 'agricultural communications research,' so we may hope that the 1960's will see an intensification of such research plus its much wider application by our agricultural institutions."
Feels that experiment station literature is losing ground in the scientific world. "..scientists generally are not looking to the experiment station bulletin for important contributions to science." Suggests that the station editor can help maintain high scientific standards, as well as high editorial standards. "Briefly, then, believing that the chief function of an experiment station is to experiment and that the chief purpose of its publications is to describe the experiments and announce the results rather than to persuade people to adopt new and supposedly better practices, we are striving to raise the standards of our technical publications addressed to the scientist, whether he is primarily interested in agricultural research or not, and to make the publications addressed to our farmers technically sound and practically worth while."
Results of a survey among 32 experiment station editors.. Aspects: types and size of annual reports, financing, editing systems, comments from editors, reactions of station personnel whose work is edited.
