DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 263 



The Superintendent of Documents sold 1,000 copies or more of 

 each of 25 different publications of the department; 4,000 copies or 

 more each of 10 publications; over 10,000 copies of each of five docu- 

 ments; and of Farmers' Bulletin No. 361, "The Use of Concrete on 

 the Farm," and No. 481, ''Concrete Construction on the Live Stock 

 Farm," he sold, respectively, 12,976 and 13,658, or nearly one-half 

 as many as the department distributed gratuitously of those two 

 farmers' bulletins. 



It is evident that there is an increased wilUngness on the part of 

 the public to purchase our pubhcations when they can no longer be 

 secured upon application to the department. If some more con- 

 venient means coidd be adopted for the purchase of our pubhcations, 

 the sales could be very; greatly increased. 



The number of copies of our publications sold during the year 

 exceeded by 104,042 those sold last year, and the amount received 

 was $1,302.34 more than that for the preceding year. Under the 

 provisions of the law of January 12, 1895, the Superintendent of 

 Documents is authorized to reprint and sell any publications, the 

 proceeds derived from the sales to cover the cost of printing. It is 

 possible, therefore, to secure any Government publication from that 

 official when the same can not be obtained Irom the department 

 issuing it. In compliance with requests for such pubhcations that 

 official reprinted dm-ing the year 645 different documents issued by 

 the Department of Agricultm-e, the number of copies aggregating 

 239,025. This exceeds the number of copies reprinted during the 

 preceding year by 47,750 copies. 



AH remittances for pubhcations should be forwarded by the appli- 

 cant to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printmg 

 Office, but although instructions are plainly printed at the head of 

 the Montlily List of Pubhcations, advising applicants to apply to that 

 official when they desire to pm'chase publications after the depart- 

 ment's supply is exhausted, remittances continue to come to this 

 office, the amount received during the year being $2,295.60. A care- 

 ful record of the money so received and daily forwarded to the Super- 

 intendent of Documents was maintained in this office. 



WORK OF THE DIVISION BY BRANCHES. 



The administrative office of the division, under the direction of the 

 editor and chief, and mcluding the office of the chief clerk, comprises, 

 in addition to those officials, 20 stenographers, typewriters, book- 

 keepers, clerks, messengers, charwomen, and laborers. The details 

 of the four branches of the work were under the immediate supervision 

 of the assistant in charge, as follows : 



(1) Editing, B. D. Stallings, editor and assistant chief, the force com- 

 prising 8 assistant editors, 2 clerks, and a messenger; (2) indexing, 

 Chas H. Greathouse, the force comprising 8 iadexers, clerks, and messen- 

 ger ; (3 ) illustrations, A. B . Boettcher, the force comprising 24 draftsmen, 

 photographers, colorists, clerks, laborers, and messenger; (4) distri- 

 bution of documents, F. J. P. Cleary, the force comprismg 106 stenog- 

 raphers and typewriters, clerks, folders, foreman, forewoman, skilled 

 laborers, classified laborers, and messengers. 



