Lists 20 "don'ts" in connection with the exercise of the penalty privilege by field employees of the Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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."
Committee recommended that institutions having broadcasting stations of their own use every means to improve and strengthen their service. However, "the larger number of institutions must depend upon cooperation with commercial stations to reach farmers and farm families by radio." Discussed a new daily USDA program through the courtesy of National Broadcasting Company.
