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The average number of current periodicals received daily during May and June, 

 1923, was 234; during April and May, 1922, 302; during the same period in 1921, 268. 

 The decrease in the number received in the department library is probably largely due 

 to the fact that daily papers and most of the duplicate copies are now addressed by the 

 publishers to the bureaus desiring them, instead of coming first to the department 

 library. 



APPENDIX 8. 



BINDING. 



Number of books sent to bindery 



Number of volumes placed in temporary binders 

 Pamphlets stapled in binders 



1919 



2,019 



1,612 



743 



1920 



1,866 



1,000 



894 



1921 



1,821 



1,152 



622 



1922 



2,858 



1,059 



675 



1923 



1,417 



1,762 



692 



Approximately 5,000 current numbers of periodicals, bulletins, and reports were 

 also added to the files already in temporary binders. Owing to pressure of other work, 

 it was found impracticable to do this work as systematically as formerly. Therefore, 

 •only the publications of this department and of the State agricultural experiment 

 stations have been laced regularly into binders, and numbers of most other series have 

 been sent to the shelves until several have accumulated. This has reduced the work, 

 but does not keep the shelves in aa good condition or protect the publications 

 adequately. 



APPENDIX 9. 



Expenditures for Library printing and binding for the fiscal years 1919 to 192S. 



1 Includes regular bindin? and binders. 



2 Separate figures not available; included with regular binding. 



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