388 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



index should enable this division to cut duplication on lists used in. 

 distributing department publications to a minimum. It will, how- 

 ever, be necessary to provide adequate assistance for caring for this 

 work. 



ILLUSTRATIONS WORK. 



As has been the case for several years, the demand upon the draft- 

 ing section for illustrative work showed a material increase and it 

 proved impossible for the available force to keep the work current. 

 It became necessary, therefore, to refuse all work except that con- 

 nected with the publications of the department, although many 

 bureaus had on hand work of the sort regularly done in this division 

 in the past. As has been explained in other reports, the difficulty is 

 to secure and retain a full force of competent draftsmen at the low 

 salaries available. One position at $1,200 remained vacant during the 

 entire year. Death and resignation was responsible for a large turn- 

 over in the drafting force. It is felt, moreover, that there should 

 be in the department a drafting section capable of doing high-class 

 illustrative work for all of the bureaus. At present the section of 

 illustrations is a training school for promising young draftsmen. The 

 volume of w^ork produced during the past fiscal 3'ear Avas 70 per cent 

 greater than for tlie previous year. The adoption of a standard 

 cover page for Farmers' Bulletins and the necessity of changing 

 many old covers to fit a large press at the Government Printing 

 Office, which was bought especially for ])rinting this class of pul)- 

 lications, has involved considerable work. It is possible that the 

 use of standard covers may eventually reduce the amount of work 

 needed on this class of publications. The following table shows 

 the number of drawings made for tlie various bureaus of the depart- 

 ment : 



DraiDings made for the various branches of the department. 



Bureau of Animal Industry 267 



Biological Survey 123 



Bureau of Plant Industry 551 



Bureau of Chemistry 102 



Bureau of Entomology 555 



Federal Horticultural Board 6 



Farm Management 466 



Forest Service 215 



Journal of Agricultural Research 307 



Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates 154 



Bureau of Public Roads 24 



Othce of the Secretary T. 164 



States Relations Service 81 



Weather Bureau 11 



Publications 1, 138 



Unidentified 1 



Total 3, 745 



The filing of the cuts of the department under the approved plan 

 reported last year was completed with satisfactory results. Early in 

 1922, however, the Public Printer, acting under a provision of the 

 printing law of 1895, retained all cuts used in department publica- 

 tions. This has resulted in much confusion and delay, since the cuts 

 are often used in other bulletins than the one in which they originally 



