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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



FIXED CHARGES AGAINST THE PRINTING FUND. 



There are certain fixed charges against the printing fund which 

 amoimt to approximately $125,000, and this sum must be deducted 

 from the amomit of the appropriation before the amount available 

 for miscellaneous reports of investigations, etc., can be ascertained. 



The following statement shows in detail the expenditures for pub- 

 lications, documents, and other work, which are regularly printed, 

 and may be considered as constituting fixed charges against the 

 appropriation for printing and binding: 



Expenditures for publications, documents, and other work, regularly printed, constituting 



fixed charges against the appropriation. 



Publication. 



Experiment Station Record 



Journal of Agricultural Research and 

 separates 



Weekly News Letter 



Department circular 



Monthly List of Publications 



Monthly Crop Report 



Yearbook (including separates) 



Field Program 



Directory of Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try 



Monthly Letter (Entomology) 



States Relations Service Monthly 



Program of Work 



Full report and soil siu^^eys 



Cost for 

 year. 



$14,207.13 



14,734.00 



22,501.24 



1,062.53 



3,596.58 



1, 716. 28 



12,679.58 



425.93 



1,296.91 

 86.99 

 49.78 



1,211.38 

 34,038.66 



Publication. 



Expenditures, Office of Experiment 

 Stations 



Annual Report of the Secretary 



Annual Report, Department of Agri- 

 culture 



Total 



Service and Regulatory Announce- 

 ments 



Annual Reports 



Statistical blanks 



Organization List 



Grand total 



Cost for 

 year. 



$783. 64 

 345.66 



569. 23 



109,305.52 



8,042.16 

 933. 97 



6,476.05 

 439.60 



125, 197. 30 



An analysis of the above table shows that the largest fixed charge 

 is for the Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils and Soil Surveys 

 and amounts to more than $34,000. Tlie Weekly News Letter fol- 

 lows, consuming $22,500; the Journal of Agricultural Research and 

 the separates therefrom, $14,734. The Experiment Station Record 

 costs $14,200 and the Yearbook, including separates, $12,679. 



The additional charges over $1,000 are: $8,042 for the Service and 

 Regulatory Announcements of the different bureaus; $3,596 for the 

 Monthly List of Pubhcations; $1,716 for the Monthly Crop Report; 

 $1,296 for the Directory of the Bureau of Animal Industry; $1,211 

 for the Program of Work of the Department; and $1,062 for the 

 Department Circular. The blanks required monthly by the Bureau 

 of Crop Estimates for the statistical report of its field agents, State, 

 county, and crop correspondents, consumed last year $6,476 of the 

 department's appropriation for binding and printing. 



STATISTICS OF PUBLICATION WORK. 



The following statement shows the contributions to the depart- 

 mental series of bulletins and the Farmers' Bulletin series by the 

 various bureaus, divisions, and offices: 



