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10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



SPECIAL TXVESTIGATIONS. The law creating the Depart- 

 ment provides for "the einployinent of experts to make special 

 (>xainit)ati()ns and investigaiioiis." These experts are selected by 

 the Sccri'lary, and the results of their examinations are printed 

 either in a special Bnlletin or in the Annual Report. The investi- 

 gations are upon subjects relating to the agricultural industry. 



BULLETINS. The Secretary is also directed to "publish from 

 lime to time such bulletins of information as he may deem useful 

 and advisable," "the number not to exceed five thousand copies of 

 any one bulletin." Eighty-seven such publications have been issued 

 since ISIJ,"). 



ANNUAL KErORT. Each year the Secretary is directed to 

 "make an Annual Report to the Governor," and in this report "he 

 may inclnde so much of the reports of other organizations as lie 

 shall deem proper." Thirty-one thousand six hundred copies are 

 authorized to be distributed; 0,000 to the Senate, 20,000 to the 

 House of Representatives, 2,000 copies to the Secretary of Agricnl 

 ture, 500 copies to the State Librarian, and to the State Experiment 

 Station, 100 copies. 



J'.t)()KS OF ACCOUNT. The General Books of Account of the 

 Department are in charge of the Secretary, and the Special Books 

 are in charge of the several Division ofliicers. 



REPORTS OF DIVISION OFFICERS. Monthly reports of the 

 operation of each ^Division for the preceding month are made to 

 the Secretary by the chief of each Division, and special repoits 

 from time to lime are made as may be necessary in order to keep 

 tlie Secretary fully informed as to the work of the several Divisions. 

 At the close of the year, full reports of the work of each Division 

 are made out and transmitted to the Secretary, and printed in 

 the Annual Report of the Department. The care of the library, 

 the reading of proof and the mailing lists ate in charge of the Chi f 

 Clerk. 



I»I\ISF()X OF FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



Til.' work ofthc Department in educating I he rainiing people of the 

 Slate by means uf (he Farmers' Institutes is fnllv shown in the re- 

 IM.rt of the Deputy Secretary, who is by virtue of his office, the Direc- 

 tnr of Institutes. The ..fT.'.ts of nu organized system for giving in- 



