II INFORMATION BULLETINS, THEIR CONTENTS AND FUNCTION Available to Purchase

The Information Service at Fisons Head Office is operated primarily to meet the needs of the fertilizer and heavy chemical part of the group, which is now known as Division 1. In addition it tries to cater for those units of the Fison Group whose information requirements do not justify the appointment of a full‐time Information Officer, and for those at Head Office with group responsibilities. The chief means by which we disseminate information from published sources are our two bulletins, the Fertilizer Bulletin and the Chemical Bulletin, which both appear fort‐nightly. Thus we do in fact put out one a week or, to be precise, four bulletins each calendar month. Both publications have suffered changes of name and have even been dropped for a time, according to the exigencies of the situation, but I was able to trace the present Fertilizer Bulletin right back to 1944, when it went under the name of the Technical Service Review. From 1950–4 it flourished as the Technical Bulletin, and at the beginning of this year was renamed the Fertilizer Bulletin. The contents of this bulletin fall roughly into four parts: technological (manufacturing processes, chemical engineering safety, etc.); laboratory (analytical); commercial (world production and consumption statistics); agricultural (trends in research and farming).