REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF 



PUBLICATIONS. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Division of Publications, 

 Washington^ D. 0., August £5, 1920. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report on the work 

 of the Division of Publications for the fiscal year ended June 30. 

 1920. 



Respectfully, 



Edwy B. Reid, 

 Chief of Division. 

 Hon. E. T. Meredith, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



ALL INFORMATIONAL WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT PLACED 

 UNDER THE DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



An order of the Secretary issued during the year placed the Office 

 of Information, the Office of Exhibits, and the motion-picture work 

 under the direction of the Chief of the Division of Publications. 

 This action was taken with a view to bring all informational work 

 of the department under one head. 



As thus reorganized the work of the division is grouped under the 

 following branches : (1) Information; (2) agricultural exhibits ; (3) 

 motion pictures; (4) editing, printing, and indexing; (5) illustrat- 

 ing; (G) distributing; (7) addressing and duplicating. 



The centralization of all mailing lists of the department in this 

 division is another step which has been recommended. A careful 

 investigation has been made of the duplicating work and a plan is 

 under consideration by which all machiner}^ equipment, materials, 

 and personnel now employed in the various offices of the department 

 may ultimately be centralized in this division so far as practicable. 

 From the study so far made it is believed that the combined plant 

 proposed for all duplicating and mailing work will effect a substan- 

 tial saving and, in addition, the output will have the benefit of 

 careful supervision. 



OUTPUT OF THE YEAR. 



The luimber of new publicntions issued during the year was 589, 

 of which Gl were Farm.crs' l>nlletins. Publications distributed ag- 

 gi'egated 45.237,747 copies; of this number 13,122,129 were Farmers' 

 Bulletins. This includes the distribution, through the Division of 

 Publications, of the congressional quotas of Farmers' Bulletins, in 



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