72 ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



The foreign distribution of all publications was suspended by- 

 departmental order dated August 10, 1914, on account or the Euro- 

 pean War. This service, however, was resumed in part during 

 October, 1914, and full service by mail, or through the Internationgd 

 Exchange Service where possible, was authorized on February 1, 

 1915. Back numbers of pubhcations for coimtries that ean not yet 

 be reached by the exchange are being held for future shipment. 



The distribution of the various periodical publications to foreign 

 addresses is as follows: 



Addresses. 



Daily weather map 87 



Monthly Weather Review 370 



Monthly Climatological Data 75 



National Weather and Crop Bulletin 27 



Snow and Ice Bulletin 10 



Subscriptions filled by this division and covered by remittances 

 made to the Superintendent of Documents were as follows at the 

 close of the year: 



Subscribers. 



National Weather and Crop Bulletin 360 



Washington weather map 51 



Snow and Ice Bulletin 33 



Monthly Climatological Data • 5 



The aggregate receipts from the above sales exceed S400 annually. 



Subscriptions for the Monthly Weather Review are filled by the 

 Superintendent of Documents, who is supplied with 75 copies per 

 month for that purpose. 



PRINTING PRESSES AT STATIONS. 



Owing to the quantity and character of the printing done at our 

 New York and New Orleans offices, a small cylinder press was pro- 

 vided for each of these stations, which, together with the platen 

 presses already in use, Jias greatly expedited the issue of their 

 pubhcations. 



Small platen presses for printing commercial weather maps, with 

 complete outfits of printing materials, were shipped during the year 

 to the stations at Spokane, Wash.; Lansing, Mich.; Springfield, 

 Mo.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Sioux City, Iowa. 



The process of standardizing the type and logotypes at all stations 

 was continued during the year as occasion demanded, i. e., whenever 

 it could be done without waste of still serviceable old-style type. 



At the present writing there are 46 stations equipped with presses 

 of sufficient size for printing maps DD, 32 stations mtli small presses 

 for printing maps CM, and 9 stations with 5 by 8 mch Pearl presses 

 for printing forecast cards and other small matter. 



LIBRARY. 



During the year 935 books and pamphlets were added to the 

 library, as com-pared with 1,167 additions last year, bringing the 

 strength of the collection up to about 35,000. The apparent decrease 

 in the number of volumes added during the year is due to the fact 

 that many unbound annual pubhcations formerlv accessioned sepa- 

 rately and included in the count of volumes added to the hbrary 

 are now treated as periodicals and not counted as separate accessions. 



