640 



ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The distribution of the Department's publications to foreign coun- 

 tries under paid postage was 84,076 packages, as against 62,707 for 

 the preceding year, weighing 28,870.8 pounds, as compared with 

 22,301.7 pounds for 1009, requiring $2,572.52 for postage, as against 

 $2,052.55 for the previous year ; and 2G.027 packages weighing 7,979.7 

 pounds were sent to Canada, Cuba, and Mexico under frank, making 

 a total of 110,688 packages, weighing 38,802 pounds, or nearly 19^ 

 tons of the Department's publications, forwarded to residents of for- 

 eign countries. This increase and great aggregate suggest the advisa- 

 bility and necessity of a general revision of foreign mailing lists of 

 the various Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices Avith the view to ascer- 

 taining whether the restrictions of General Order No. 96, of April 

 14, 1906, have been effective, and, if not, what modifications should be 

 made. 



MISCELLANEOUS WORK. 



The Division is called upon to do an enormous amount of miscel- 

 laneous work for other Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices in the way 

 of addressing envelopes and franks and furnishing mimeograph 

 copies of press notices. During the year miscellaneous lists have been 

 written for other Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices, comprising 91,433 

 addresses, this being in excess of the work done in 1909 by over 8,000 

 addresses, as shown below: 



Franks addressed for other Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices, Miscellaneous 



Lists, etc. 



Addressed franks written during the fiscal year ending July 1 — 



1910 91,433 



1909 83,429 



Excess of work done in 1910 over 1909 8, 004 



WORK OF THE DIVISION FOR 1911. 



The work during 1911 will be continued along the same lines as 

 lieretofore, and with the same constant effort to increase the Division's 

 usefulness, and to secure the largest and most satisfactory output of 

 work with the available funds. 



RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 1912. 



The demand for Farmers' Bulletins is greater than ever before — 

 far in excess of the ability of the Department to supply. An increase 

 in the appropriation for printing them seems to offer the only solution 

 •of the problem. With an increase in the present appropriation the. 



