626 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



New Farmers' BuUetins issued during the fiscal year J'JIO — Continued. 



Bul- 

 letin 

 No. 



381 

 382 

 383 

 384 

 385 

 386 

 387 

 388 

 389 

 390 

 391 

 392 

 393 

 394 

 395 

 396 

 397 

 398 

 399 

 400 

 401 



402 

 403 

 404 

 405 

 406 



Title of bulletin. 



Experiment Station Work — LIV 



The Adulteration of Forage-plant Seeds 



How to Destroy English Sparrows 



Experiment Station Work — LV 



Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Clubs 



Potato Culture on Irrigated Farms of the West 



The I'reservative Treatment of Farm Timbers 



Experiment Station Work — LVI 



Bread and Bread Making 



Pheasant Raising in the United States 



Economical Use of Meat in the Home 



Irrigation of Sugar Beets 



Habit-forming Agents 



The Use of Windmills in Irrigation in the Semiarid West 



Sixty-day and Kherson Oats , 



The'Muskrat , 



Bees 



Farm Practice in the Use of Conunercial Fertilizers in the South Atlantic States 



Irrigation of Grain 



A More Profitable Corn-planting Method 



The Protection of Orchards in the Pacific Northwest from Spring Frosts by Means of 



Fires and Smudges 



Canada Bluegrass: Its Culture and Uses 



The Construction of Concrete Fence Posts 



Irrigation of Orchards 



Experiment Station Work — LVII 



Soil Conservation 



Total (45 bulletins) 



Total 

 number 

 of copies. 



30.000 

 65,000 

 45,000 

 30,000 



110,000 

 35,000 

 25,000 

 25. 000 



130,000 

 25,000 



900.000 

 20.000 

 50,000 

 15,000 

 15,000 

 15,000 

 20,000 

 20, 000 

 15,000 

 20,000 



20,000 

 15,000 

 30,000 

 20.000 

 15,000 

 30,000 



2,915,000 



POPTJLABITY OF FARMERS' BULLETINS. 



As illustrating the popularity of the Farmers' Bulletins reference 

 may be made to No. 391, Economical Use of Meat in the Home, 

 issued March 23, 1910, and eight times reprinted, the aggregate num- 

 ber of copies printed and distributed during the year being 900,000. 

 A reprint of 500,000 copies was authorized by Congress, making a 

 total of 1,400,000 of this bulletin. Other Farmers' Bulletins on 

 the subject of nutrition were also in great demand. The demand 

 for Farmers' Bulletins was unprecedented and it was with some 

 difficulty and not without some delay that the orders for printing 

 them were executed. There is an increasing demand for these popular 

 bulletins from schools of all grades and from higher educational 

 institutions, where they are used in connection with the courses of 

 instruction, Avhich it is extremely desirable to supply, but which it 

 is not possible to do with the present appropriation for printing these 

 bulletins. 



MISCELLANEOUS DISTRIBUTION OF FARMERS' BULLETINS. 



Prior to 1908 the appropriation for Farmers' Bulletins appeared 

 in the agricultural appropriation bill and contained a provision that 

 congressional quotas not distributed prior to the end of the fiscal 

 year should revert to the Secretar}^ of Agriculture, and under this 

 provision it was possible either to increase the new quotas for the 

 succeeding year or to more fully comply with the miscellaneous 

 requests received by the Department. The Secretary's quota of one- 

 fifth is not sufficient to satisfy the demands made upon it. The pro- 

 vision has been omitted from the appropriation since it was trans- 

 ferred to the general printing bill and the result has been the con- 

 gestion in the Department's limited storage space of a large num- 



