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ANNUAL EEPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



use, were printed during the year. Memorandum No. 118 also pro- 

 vides for the publication of titles of kindred publications on pages 

 of bulletins which otherwise would be blank. Such lists are pre- 

 pared by the submitting bureau and revised by this division, and 

 have appeared in publications whenever it was economical to insert 

 them. 



With regard to reprints of publications, particularly Farmers' 

 Bulletins, the policy was inaugurated of inserting the date of the 

 reprint, the object being to make clear to the public that though the 

 bulletin was issued some time ago, it is still considered suitable for 

 distribution by the department. 



Some progress was made durmg the year toward securing uni- 

 formity in the paper used for letterheads. 



The character and form of the Yearbook of the Department is 

 maintained practically as that of 1914, with the exception of an 

 increased number of articles, a fuller appendix, and additional pages. 



But few bulletins of the various series of the bureaus, divisions, and 

 offices were reprinted, dependence being placed on the Superintendent 

 of Documents exercising the authority vested in liim by law to reprint 

 in case the demand proved sufficient to justify it, it being the depart- 

 ment's policy to expend the appropriation for new bulletins. 



The experience of the previous year showing that the classifica- 

 tion of the department's publications then in vogue did not afford a 

 place for occasional bulletins and reports such as were formerly in- 

 cluded in the bureau series of pubHcations, the restriction was removed 

 by reviving the series of numbered reports of the Secretary's office, 

 seven of which were issued and several more were in process of print- 

 ing at the close of the fiscal year. 



The pohcy inaugurated February 1, 1914, of issuing a monthly 

 series of service and regulatory announcements for each bureau or 

 board charged with the enforcement of regulatory acts was con- 

 tinued throughout the year. The miscellaneous administrative cir- 

 culars, orders, decisions, etc., were reduced this year to 194 from 548 

 of the preceding year, although the pages increased from 2,133 in 

 1914 to 3,127 during 1915. 



SALES OF DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS. 



Notwithstanding a wide free distribution of pubhcations by the 

 department, the sales by the Superintendent ot Documents aggre- 

 gated 321,518 copies, for which that official received $23,011.10, and 

 distributed 14,345 additional copies to subscribers. Sales of the 

 department's publications for the last six years are shown in the 

 accompanying table: 



Sales of agricultural publications by the Superintendent of Documents during the fiscal 



years 1910-1915. 



