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The Forest Ranger's Day. (1 reel, Forest Service.) 



Building a Sand-Hill Forest. (1 reel, Forest Service.) 



Guarding Livestock Health. (1 reel. Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Making Poultry Pay. (1 reel, Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Anchored Acres. (1 reel, States Relation Service.) 



Fire — The Prairie Demon. (1 reel. Forest Service.) 



Around the West by Forest Roads. (1 reel. Bureau of Public Roads.) 



Building Forest Roads. (1 reel, Bureau of Public Roads.) 



The Golden Fleece. (1 reel. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates.) 



Films revised during the year — some of them to such an extent that 

 they are practically new pictures — follow : 



What about Macadam? (1 reel, Bureau of Public Roads.) 

 Granite Block Paving. (1 reel. Bureau of Public Roads.) 

 Great Dairy Sires and Their Daughters. (1 reel. Bureau of Animal In- 

 dustry. ) 



Uncle Sam — World Champion Farmer. (1 reel, miscellaneous.) 

 The Ox Warble — A Fifty-Million-Dollar Tune. (1 reel, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology. ) 



Goodbye Boll Weevil. (2 reels. Bureau of Entomology.) 



Making the South Tick-Free. (1 reel, Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Charge of the Tick Brigade. (1 reel, Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



High Steppers. (1 reel, Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Strawberries — From Seed to Sliortcake. (1 reel. Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Future Forest Giants. (1 reel, Forest Service.) 



Minor revisions were completed in 10 other films. 



NEW PROJECTS UNDER WAY. 



New projects on which considerable work was done include : 



The Horse in Motion. (Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Sugar Cane and Cane Sugar. (Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Beets — From Seed to Sugar. (Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Better Ways of Growing Cotton. (Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Peanut Production. (Bui'eau of Plant Industry.) 



White Pine Blister Rust In the West. (Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Cranberry Production and Diseases. (Bureau of Plant Industry.) 



Morgan Horses. (Bureau of Animal Industry.) 



Bird Banding. (Bureau of Biological Survey.) 



Barring Foreign Plant Foes. (Federal Horticultural Board.) 



Seeing Washington with Club Champions. (States Relations Service.) 



Insecticide Board Work. (Insecticide and Fungicide Board.) 



Should I Buy a Tractor? (Bureau of Public Roads.) 



Preparatory work, including scenario writing, was done on 15 

 other subjects not yet approved for production. 



WIDER DISTRIBUTION ATTAINED! 



Too often is the " making of a movie " and its release regarded 

 as the end of the enterprise. As a matter of fact, the job is only 

 begun when the film is made ready for showing to the public. Just 

 as in the case of the farmers' crops, without efficient marketing the 

 production counts for little. A film held idle might as well not 

 exist, except for historical purposes. In the past year the task of 

 getting the department pictures shown has met with marked suc- 

 cess, and increasingly wider distribution is certain with continued 

 improvement in the quality of the films. 



Definite reports from extension workers and others indicate that 

 their film audiences during the year reached a total of at least 

 2,000,000 people. It should be remembered that a large part of this 



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