12 ANNLAJ. IIEPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



Aw a reyulr, ii will l)e sreii tliat in sonio iustan<'es llx- vopoi-t of the 

 pi-oc'cediri.us of Iayo aniuinl i)H>etin!L;,s of ilie same body ov association 

 appear. 



PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 



The regnlai- pu!)lication of bulletins of information has been kept 

 up during the year. In addition to the niouLhly and quarterly bulle- 

 tins Issued from the Dairy and Food Division and the Division of 

 Economic Zoology, fourteen miscellaneous bulletins have been pub- 

 lished, as follows: 



No. 107. Analyses of Concentrated Commercial Feeding Stuffs. 



No. 108. The Hessian Fly in Pennsylvania. 



No. lf)9. Tabulated Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. 



No. 110. Containing Statement of ^Vork of Dairy and Food Divi- 

 sion from July 1st to December 1st, 1902. 



No. 111. Small Fruits, their Origin, Culture and Marketing. 



No. 112. List of County and Local Agricultural Societies. 



No. 113. Methods of Milking. 



No. 114. Tabulated Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. 



No. 115. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Farmers' Institute 

 Managers and Lecturers. 



No. IIG. Farmers' Institutes in Pennsylvania. 



No. 117. Potash Fertilizers — Sources and Methods of Application. 



No. 118. Containing the Law Creating the Office of Dairy and Food 

 Commissioner in Pennsylvania, and also a Digest of the Acts of 

 Assembly Committed to his Administration. 



No. 119. Tabulated Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. 



No. 120. The Apple-tree Tent Caterpillar. 



The demand for agricultural literature is largely on the increase. 

 Kequests for the bulletins, as well as the Reports of the Depart- 

 ment, come from every state and territory of the Union, including 

 our recent annexed provinces. Such requests come also from all 

 countries in Europe, from Australia, China, Japan and from Brazil, 

 Uruguay and other countries of South America. Kequests for lit- 

 erature of the Department come from all sections of Canada, nearly 

 every week. To meet this demand, about 60,000 bulletins were 

 mailed during the year 190.3, exclusive of the regular monthly and 

 quarterly bulletins already referred to. 



In response to a call made by the Executive Oflicer of the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase Exposition Commission, the Department has under- 

 taken to prepare for the exposition an exhibit of birds, mammals, 

 insects, etc., which will show their economic relation to agriculture. 

 The investigation necessary to be made in order to prepare such 

 an exhibit, as well as the work to be done in its preparation, were 

 placed in the hands of the Eeonomic Zoologist, who is, at the time 



