574 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



aggregating 3,480 pages, as follows: 21 numbers of Experiment 

 Station Record, including 3 index numbers ; 3 administrative reports, 

 including the report of the Director of the States Relations Service, 

 1922, work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations, 



1920, and cooperative extension work in agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics, 1921 ; 14 publications of the experiment stations in Alaska 

 and the insular possessions, including reports of the Alaska, Hawaii, 

 Porto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands experiment stations for 



1921, 2 bulletins of the Hawaii station, 2 bulletins of the Porto Rico 

 station, 3 bulletins and 1 circular of the Guam station, and 1 bulletin 

 of the Virgin Islands station; 1 department bulletin dealing with 

 the digestibility of various oils and blended hydrogenated fats; 6 

 department circulars dealing respectively with county-agent, home- 

 demonstration, and boys' and girls' club work, extension work in the 

 Southern States, homemade apple and citrus pectin extracts, Fed- 

 eral legislation, regulations, and rulings affecting land-grant col- 

 leges and experiment stations, and statistics of cooperative extension 

 work; 2 farmers' bulletins dealing respectively with corn and its 

 uses as food and good proportions in the diet; and 3 miscellaneous 

 documents giving lists of workers in subjects pertaining to agri- 

 culture, and dealing with education and research in agriculture and 

 home economics in the United States, the latter prepared for dis- 

 tribution at the Brazil Centennial Exposition. 



About 40 orders for job printing and binding were handled during 

 the year. 



The division cooperated with the press service of the department 

 in assembling and preparing about 500 articles relating to the work 

 of the service for press release and for the Official Record. 



Approximately 265 pieces of duplicating were done for the service 

 during the year by the Division of Publications, and 465 pieces by 

 the small duplicating unit operated under the direction of the edi- 

 torial division. 



Illustrations Section, — This section cooperated with other offices 

 of the service in securing several carefully planned series of photo- 

 graphs illustrating the work of the service for use in publications, 

 publicity, and exhibits, and for distribution in lantern-slide form. 

 Eight States (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, 

 Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan, Pennsylvania) and points in 

 the District of Columbia were visited for this purpose during the 

 year. 



About 2,200 photographs were added to the collection, making, 

 the total number now in the collection 18,608, of which 16,166 are 

 mounted, classified, and catalogued for ready use. 



In cooperation with other offices of the service and other bureaus 

 of the department, 16 series of lantern slides were prepared for the 

 use of extension workers and agricultural teachers on the following 

 subjects : Farm drainage in the humid section, child feeding, growing 

 annual flowering plants, farm dairy houses, sheep judging and breeds 

 of sheep, foot-and-mouth disease, judging breeding cattle, preparing 

 beef cattle for show or sale, control and reclamation of gullies, educa- 

 tional milk-for-health campaigns, important cultivated grasses, how 

 to get rid of rats, the anatomy of the honeybee, exhibit shown at the 

 International Live Stock Exposition, exhibit at the National Dairy 

 Exposition, and the United States Department of Agriculture. 



