264 ANNUAL EEPOETS OP DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



EDITING. 



The changes in classification and form of the publications instituted 

 in 1914 have increased the amoiuit of work required of this office 

 although the number of new publications is apparently less than for 

 the previous year. 



The following table shows the number of new publications and 

 reprints issued during the last 10 years (1906-1915, mclusive): 



Number of publications issued. 



1 Not including press notices, which were mimeographed. 



Manuscripts comprising 84,609 folios, as compared with 63,943 

 folios for the previous year, with 4,925 illustrations, compared with 

 3,493 illustrations for the year 1914, were read and edited during the 

 year. The proof readmg and revising comprised 6,861 galleys, as 

 compared with 5,616 galleys of the previous year, and 31,243 pages, 

 in contrast to 23,456 for the year 1914. 



It will be seen from the following table that the new numbered 

 bulletins were 183 — 46 more than last year — and that by adding the 

 other documents, which are properly classed as publications, the 

 aggregate new published documents is 913. This is 230 less than the 

 number reported last year, the decrease being the result of including 

 a number of notices of judgment, etc., in the service and regulatory 

 announcements; but the number of pages is 27,916 and illustrations 

 3,572 as compared with 21,638 and 3,140 for the years 1915 and 1914, 

 respectively. 



In addition to the figures contained in the table, there were 666 

 press notices issued from the Office of Information and Forest Service 

 during the year, of which 33 originated in the Forest Service. The 

 633 prepared in the Office of Information were mimeographed in 

 the Division of Pubhcations, comprising 674 legal cap sheets and 

 aggregated 1,078,820 copies. 



