DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



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sional publications, brought about because the entire cost of the Year- 

 book fell upon this year's appropriation, while previously it was 

 divi^led between the two fiscal years in which the work was done by 

 the Government Printing Office, and the slightly larger sum spent 

 for Farmers" Bulletins. In addition to the publications issued during 

 the fiscal year for which this report is made, requisitions involving 

 the expenditure of about $19,000 were made upon the Government 

 Printing Office, but the work was not undertaken because of the 

 unusual demands upon that office for congressional and other print- 

 ing. In some instances the work was undertaken but not completed. 

 This fact accounts for the apparent balance of $19,000 in the print- 

 ing fund; but this expense, though properly belonging to the year 

 1910, will fall upon the appropriation for the current year (1911). 

 The following tables give a comparison of publication work of the 

 Department for the years 1907-1910, inclusive. 



Output of publications from the Drparlvtcnl for the fiscal years 1907, 1908, 1909, 



and 1910 compared. 



SALE OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT. 



The sale of publications of this Department shows a steady growth; 

 the number of documents sold during the past year was 147,327, an 

 increase of 30,109 over the previous year, and the amount received 

 was $18,398.18, an increase of $2,105.08. The average price per 

 document was about 12^ cents, a decrease of 1^ cents, showing an in- 

 crease in the proportion of the smaller publications sold. The work 

 of the Department for forty-eight years from the passage of the 

 organic act to- the end of the fiscal j^'ear 1910 was represented in the 

 publications sold; they ranged from the annual report for 1862 to 

 the latest publication issued. 



As in previous years, the publications ranged in size from one-page 

 leaflets to bound volumes of 1.300 pages; in price they ranged from 5 

 cents for the smaller publications to $5.35 for the Field Operations 

 of the Bureau of Soils for 1903 and $10 for Bulletin Q of the Weather 

 Bureau. 



The greatest number of any publication sold was 6,083 copies of 

 Bulletin 121 of the liureau of Animal Industry on the Need of Con- 

 trolling and Standardizing the Manufacture of Veterinary Tetanus 

 Antitoxin. The largest income from one publication was, as in the 

 previous year, from the sale of 1,814 copies of the Special Report on 

 Disca.ses of the Horse, at 65 cents, making a total of $1,179.10. 



It is rather remarkable that 4.255 copies were sold of Farmers' Bul- 

 letin 391, Economical Use of Meat in the Homo, notwithstanding 

 the fact that this bulletin had the largest free distribution of any 

 publication ever issued by the (iovernment. 



