DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



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The following table shows the agricultural publications reissued 

 by the Superintendent of Documents, classitied according to the main 

 branch of the Department which originally contributed them : 



Agricultural publicatiotis reissued by the Superintendent of Documents during 

 the fiscal year 1910, classified according to the Bureau or Office originally 

 contributing them. 



Bureau or Office. 



Office of the Secretary 



Bureau of Animal Industry. . 



Biological Survey 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Bureau of Entomology 



Office of Experiment Stations 



Forest Service 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Office of l^ublic Roads 



Bureau of Soils 



Weather Bureau 



Farmers' Bulletins 



Total 



462 1 112,092 



Under the law of January 12, 1895, all remittances for publications 

 should be forwarded to the Superintendent of Documents, Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. By instructions conspicuously printed at the 

 head of the Monthly List of Publications correspondents are advised 

 to apply to that official when they desire to obtain any publication to 

 which a price is affixed. Notwithstanding all effort to prevent it, 

 however, money in payment for publications continues to come to 

 this Division, the amount received during the fiscal year being 

 $1,270.27, all of which had to be forwarded to the Superintendent of 

 Documents by registered mail. A careful record of all amounts so 

 received and jforwarded is kept in the Division. 



EDITORIAL WORK. 



Through the editorial work, under the immediate supervision of 

 the Assistant Chief, this Division labors not only for economy in the 

 expenditure of printing funds, but for improvement in the character 

 of the publications. This work has been carried along the same lines 

 of ]irevioiis years, no increase being made in the force and but little 

 change in the personnel. As heretofore, eveiy manuscript submitted 

 for publication during the year has been subjected to the most pains- 

 taking editorial scrutiny. In all cases where the subject-matter 

 treated embraces the work of Bureaus other than that submitting the 

 manuscript, it has been referred to the offices interested in order to 

 receive the benefit of their expert criticism and revision. 



The number of new publications receiving attention was 1,074, 

 containing 25,301 printed pages. Of these, the Reports of the Chiefs, 

 the extracts and separates, and the Soil Survey Advance Sheets rep- 

 resent parts of larger publications issued separately. All these came 

 to the Division of Publications in manuscript form and passed out of 

 it in the final form in Avhich they appeared in print. 



The job work of the Department also involved a great amount of 

 work in making up now forms, verifying copy, preparing for the 

 printer, and reading proof, and as the Department extends its inves- 



