636 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SUMMARY OF WORK DONE ON ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The followino: is a detaikMl statement of the work done for each 

 Bureau as well as the aggregate amount of work performed during 

 the year ended June 30, 1910: 



Photoffraphic icork done for the different Bureaus, Divisions, and Ofjlces of 

 the Department and for the public during the fiscal year ended June SO^ 

 1910. 



Summary of work on illustrations during the fiscal year ended June SO, 1910. 



Photographic work : 



\e\os. prints 4G, S24 



Blueprints 7,863 



Solar bromides 1, 476 



Repro prints 83 



Bromide enlargements 923 



Prints mounted nr>6 



Negatives made 2,675 



Plates and films developed 4,018 



Negatives opaqued 373 



Lantern slides 3, 985 



Lantern slides colored 80 



Moving-picture film feet__ 29,800 



Paid i-ecpiisitioiis (■amounting to $321.10) 171 



Drawings, electrotypes, etc. : 



Drawings made 1, 460 



Requests received for duplicate electros 98 



Duplicate electros furnished on request 734 



Illustrations printed or published, not including reprints 2,475 



HANDLING AND DISTRLBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



During the fiscal year there Avere distributed from the balance on 

 hand July 1, 1909, and from the new supply issued during the year, 

 23,749.4.3t copies of publications and documents, leaving a balance 

 on hand of 5,230,828. This is an increase over the total number dis- 

 tributed during the past fiscal 3^ear of over 6.000.000. Of the entire 

 number of documents distributed, 13,656,967 were miscellaneous, 



