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food value of milk, home caimintr. kitclien planninfi;. floors and floor 

 coverings, and the practical advantages of home demonstration and 

 bovs" and girls' club work. 



There were printed for the States Relations Service during the 

 year 55 documents aggregating 3.458 pages, as follows: 21 numbers 

 of Experiment Station Kecord. including 2 index numbers; 3 ad- 

 ministrative reports, including the report of the director of the States 

 Relations Service, 1921. work and expenditures of agricultural ex- 

 periment stations. 1919. and cooperative extension work in agriculture 

 and home economics. 1920: 11 publications of the experiment sta- 

 tions in Alaska and the insular possessions, including reports of the 

 Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam experiment stations for 1920. 

 1 bulletin of the HaAvaii station, 1 bulletin and 2 circulars of the 

 Porto Rico station. 1 bulletin and 1 circular of the Guam station, 

 and 1 bulletin of the Virgin Islands station ; 2 department bulletins 

 dealing respectiveh^ with food selection and heat production of 

 honeybees in winter; 7 department circulars dealing respectively 

 with county agent, home demonstration, and boys' and f^irls' club 

 work, extension work among negroes, statistics of cooperative exten- 

 sion work, the paper dress form, and kitchen planning: 4 farmers' 

 bulletins dealing respectively with milk as food, home canning of 

 fruits and vegetables, floors and floor coverings, and food require- 

 ments of the average family: 3 Yearbook articles dealing respectively 

 with the diet of rural homes, home demonstration work in the South, 

 and the influence of boys' and girls' club work on community life. 



An article on the assimilation of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potas- 

 sium by corn, contributed by the Porto Rico station, Avas printed in 

 the Journal of Agricultural Research, and about 20 articles relating 

 to various features of the work of the service were published in out- 

 side journals. 



About 45 orders for job printing and binding were handled during 

 the year. 



The larger part of the duplicating work formerly done by this 

 division was transferred during the year to the Division of Publi- 

 cations, a small unit only being retained to take care of the more 

 urgent current work of the service. 



The division cooperated with the Press Service of the department 

 in assembling and preparing articles relating to the work of the 

 service for press release and the Official Record. About 500 such 

 articles were contributed by the service during the year. A con- 

 sistent and timely program to serve as a guide in preparing mate- 

 rial of this kind was worked out. As a basis for this program a 

 complete outline of suitable subjects for publicity was made in coop- 

 eration with the various offices of the service, supplemented by a 

 calendar of such subjects as required seasonal treatment. With this 

 outline and calendar as a guide, it has been possible to make the 

 material more timely and to keep it more closely in accord with the 

 actual work and the needs and interests of the service. 



Illustkations Section. — The work of this section in cooperation 

 with other offices of the service and other bureaus of the department 

 was materially increased during the year along the lines of securing- 

 photographs illustrating the work of the service and its cooperat- . 

 ing agencies; preparing lantern slides and distributing them to 



