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and business men, for statistics relating to agricultural, commercial, 

 and economic subjects; (7) translations of letters and agricultural 

 literature from foreign languages for the use of the Bureau, and, 

 when requested, for other branches of the Department; (8) the 

 management and care of the Bureau's statistical library, including 

 the revision and maintenance of a card catalogue of the agricultural 

 statistics contained therein; (9) stenography and typewriting for the 

 Bureau and occasionally for other Bureaus of the Department. 



Seven bulletins, one circular, and twelve monthly issues of the 

 Crop Reporter, the official organ of the Bureau, have been edited 

 durmg the year. Of the bulletins six have been published, and one — 

 "Consolidated Schools" — is in press, being, by request, published 

 bv the Office of Experiment Stations. The original preparation of 

 all these bulletins and of the greater part of the material of the Crop 

 Reporter has been done in other offices and divisions of this Bureau, 

 the functions of this division in relation to them being editorial in 

 character. The work originating in the division is described in items 

 2 to 9 enumerated above. 



To the Yearbook summaries, by countries, of the so-called world 

 production of corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, and flax-seed — sum- 

 maries prepared annually in this division — there has this year, for 

 the first time, been added, as the result of painstaking and careful 

 researches hito the official publications of foreign governments, 

 statistics, by countries, of the acreage under these cereals in the 

 difierent foreign countries during each of the past five years. The 

 great amount of labor involved in the collection of these figures and 

 their reduction from different foreign units to American equivalents 

 is believed to be justified by tlie constantly increasing demand for 

 information relating to the comparative soil productivity, etc., of 

 the difierent countries of the world. More timely information 

 respecting the i)rogress of agriculture in foreign countries is also 

 collected in the division each month and a brief summary prepared 

 for monthly publication in the Crop Reporter, this work having 

 been first delegated to the division in April, 1910. 



The collation and coordination of statistics and the preparation of 

 text for a bulletin on coffee production has been completed; and 

 similar work for a bulletin on the production and trade in cocoaniits 

 and their prochicts is nearing completion. The editing and revision 

 of these bulletins remains to be undertaken, and will be expedited as 

 much as other editorial work of the division will ])ermit. In con- 

 nection with the work of the first named of these bulletins a statistical 

 statement has been pre])ared of the production of coffee in different 

 countries for each of the past five years and published in the 1909 

 Yearbook. 



Statistics relative to the sales of tobacco by growers and to the 

 consumption of lioi)s by brewers in the United States — the former 

 for use in the Bureau in connection with its estimates on tobacco 

 production, the latter for ])ublication in the Croj) Rejiorter — have 

 been (•om))ile<l, as is customaiy each year, from records in the oflice 

 of tiie Commissioner of Internal Revenue; the data relating to hops 

 appear annually in the November issue of the Croj) Reporter. 



^lauv requests from ]niblic oiganizations and ])rivate individuals 

 for statistical data have been referred to the division during the 



