386 ANNUAL RErORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



This method of publication secures prompt announcement of the 

 department's investigations, which is particularly important in the 

 scientific world, and saves the department's printing fund for more 

 elaborate and final reports and for the increasing number of prac- 

 tical and popular bulletins. 



The manuscripts of these papers are reviewed in this division and 

 records are kept showing when and in what publications the papers 

 are used. 



CONGRESSIONAL RESTRICTION ON PERIODICALS AND FIELD 



PRINTING. 



B3' section 11 of an act of Congress approved March 1, 1919, 

 authority was given the Joint Committee on Printing to employ such 

 measures as it might deem necessary to remedy any neglect, "delay, 

 duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and the dis- 

 tribution of Government publications. That section also provided 

 that thereafter no periodical should be printed and issued unless 

 specifically authorized by Congress, but that such periodicals as were 

 then being printed without specific authority from Congress might, 

 " in the discretion of the Joint Committee on Printing," be continued 

 until the close of the next regular session of Congress, when, if au- 

 thority for their continuance had not then been granted by Con- 

 gress, they should not thereafter be printed. 



Acting under this provision, the Joint Committee issued " Regula- 

 tions No. 1," in which it was announced that the Public Printer had 

 been instructed not to print any periodical after May 1, 1919, unless 

 specifically authorized by Congress, or unless the Joint Committee 

 had authorized its continuance until the close of the following regu- 

 lar session of Congress. The statement was added that this instruc- 

 tion also applied to publications printed at Government expense else- 

 where than at the Government Printing Office. Copies of this com- 

 munication were addressed to this department, and presumably to all 

 other executive branches of the Government. 



Regulations No. 1 also requested that full information be given the 

 Joint Committee regarding periodicals then being issued, together 

 with reasons and recommendations for their continuance until the 

 close of the next regular session of Congress. This information was 

 furnished the Joint Committee regarding each of the periodicals 

 and similar publications then being issued by the department, and 

 representatives of the department appeared before the committee to 

 explain their necessity. 



By Regulations No^ 3 the Joint Committee authorized the continu- 

 ance of existing periodicals until August 1, 1919, and by Regulations 

 No. 4 until October 1, 1919. 



By Regulations No. 5, issued September 19, 1919, the Joint Com- 

 mittee authorized the continuance of journals, magazines, and 

 periodicals existing on July 1, 1919, until otherwise disposed of as 

 provided for in the act referred to. The committee withheld ap- 

 proval or disapproval at that time, with the statement that its recom- 

 mendations would later be submitted to Congress. Certain exceptions 

 were made to this general authorization, the only one affecting this 

 department being the authority to combine the Seed Reporter and 

 the Food Surveys in one periodical to be known as the Market Re- 

 porter. , 



