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ANNUAL EEPOKTS OF DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



This office issued on the Pubhc Printer 4,647 requisitions for print- 

 ing and binding, compared with 5,200 during the preceding year. Of 

 the requisitions issued in 1915 there remained at the close of business 

 on June 30, 1915, 652 for which dehveries of completed work had not 

 been made, compared with 478 on the same date for 1914. 



Of the department's appropriation of $500,000 for printing and 

 binding, not exceeding $137,500 was provided for Farmers' Bulletins 

 and not exceeding $47,000 for the Weather Bureau. 



The appropriation for salaries of this division was $170,750, and 

 that for miscellaneous expenses $18,750. 



The actual expenditures under the supervision of this division were 

 as follows : 



Printing and binding $469, 984. 21 



Salaries of employees (all on statutory roll) 168, 019. 14 



Miscellaneous expenditures for materials, supplies, etc 18, 440. 46 



For purposes of comparison, the following statement of appropri- 

 ations under the supervision of this division for the five fiscal years 

 ended June 30, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1915, is given: 



I This year $17,000 of the $47,000 usually allotted to the Weather Bureau was used for general depart- 

 mental printing and binding. 



EXPENDITURES FOR PRINTING AND BINDING. 



The total expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1915, were $499,966.84, and the following tables show 

 the amount of this sum used for each bureau, division, and office of 

 the department, the amounts expended in pubhshing the various 

 classes of pubhcations, and the per cent of the whole used for each 

 class : 



Total expenditures for printing and binding for the fiscal year ended June SO, 1915, by 



bureaus. 



Bureau or ofHce. 



Miscellaneous (Secretary) 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Bureau of Soils 



B ureau of Animal Industry . . 



Weather Bureau 



Office of Experiment Stations 



Forest Service 



Bureau of Crop Estimates 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Bureau of Entomology 



Library 



Amount. 



$221,478.13 

 44, 847. 53 

 38,351.42 

 30, 600. 73 

 29,982.63 

 29,783.56 

 21, 709. 85 

 16, 440. 01 

 13,088.15 

 11,558.12 

 10,593.31 



Bureau or office. 



Division of Publications 



Office of Markets 



Federal Horticultural Board 



Biu^eau of Biological Survev 



Office of Public Roads ". 



Division of Accounts and Disburse- 

 ments 



Insecticide and Fungicide Board 



Total 



Amount. 



$9, 235. 54 

 6,589.55 

 4,454.54 

 4. 259. 96 

 3; 792. 22 



2, 207. 81 

 993. 78 



499,966.84 



