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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ti<rati<)ns and experiments, the job -work must necessarily increase, 

 both in the amount and variety. Tt will be noted in the table on 

 page 12 that the expenditure for administrative and minor publica- 

 tions, job printing:, and binding "was considerably less than for the 

 preceding year. This saving was due not only to the constant effort 

 to keep down the expense, but also to the transfer of the cost of 

 certain minor publications to other items in that table. 



AMOUNT OF WORK. 



As may be readily understood, it is impossible to show in detail 

 the work done by an editorial stafi', as it is difficult to give statistically 

 the amount of work expended on a manuscript submitted and for suffi- 

 cient reasons withheld from publication, or on the reduction, rear- 

 rangement, and other improvements made in the manuscripts pub- 

 lished ; the output of books always being in inverse proportion to the 

 amount of work expended upon th« manuscript. 



The accompanying table presents a complete statement of the pub- 

 lications issued by the Department. It shows separately the new pub- 

 lications of the year, the older publications reprinted, with the number 

 of printed pages and the number of copies in each class, and the last 

 three columns contain the totals for both classes. The table also 

 shows separately the Farmers' Bulletins and other publications with 

 the totals for the two classes combined for each Bureau, Division, and 

 Office of the Department, and for the Department as a whole: 



Publications issued hi/ the Department during the fiscal year 1910, classified 

 according to the Bureau, Division, or Office contributing tJicm. 



ALL PUBLICATIONS EXCEPT FARMERS' BULLETINS. 



