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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20451
Notes:
Pages 67-85 in Michael P. Collinson and Kerri Wright Platais (eds.), Social science in the CGIAR. CGIAR Study Paper No. 28, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. Proceedings of a meeting of CGIAR social scientists held at the International Service for Nation, "The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is an informal associatioin of 40 public and private sector donors that supports a network of 18 international agricultural research centers."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C20449
Notes:
Pages 36-49 in Michael P. Collinson and Kerri Wright Platais (eds.), Social science in the CGIAR. CGIAR Study Paper No. 28, The World Bank, Washington, D.C. Proceedings of a meeting of CGIAR social scientists held at the International Service for Nation, "The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is an informal associatioin of 40 public and private sector donors that supports a network of 18 international agricultural research centers."
Presentation by R. W. Trullinger, chief of the office of experiment stations and assistant research administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, at 1950 AAACE conference. Calls for AAACE to become a stronger professional organization and urges development of strong agricultural journalism training programs. "Has your group gone on record urging the Association to increase opportunities for professional agricultural journalism?" "There must be a basic reason why the editorial departments are so frequently assigned quarters in the basement or attic; why the editor so often has to take on nondescript chores ranging from the duties of janitor to teaching English."
Brief summary of a talk by J.T. Jardine, Chief, Office of Experiment Stations, U.S. Department of Agriculture, at 1931 AAACE convention, Corvallis, Oregon. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Poem highlighting the problematic focus, incentives and effectiveness of farming systems research by universities and experiment stations around the world.
