DIVISION OF PUBLICATION'S. 



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Some of the publications regarded by the Superintendent of 

 Documents as the best sellers are shown in the following statement: 



Publications sold by the Superintendent of Documents. 



Publication. 



Department BoDetin 576, Factory Manufacture of Cottage Cheese 



Department Bulletin 631, Five Years' Calf- Feeding in Alabama and Mississippi 



Farmers' Bulletin 142, Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food 



Farmers' Bulletin 203, Canned Fruits, Preserves, and Jellies 



Farmers' Bulletin 513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard 



Farmers' Bulletin 807, Bread and Bread Making 



Farmers' Bulletin 813, Construction and Use of Farm Weirs 



Farmers' Bulletin 839, Home Canning by the One-Period Cold-Pack Method 



Special Report on Diseases of Cattle 



Special Report on Diseases of the Horse 



Bulletin 28, Office of Experiment Stations, Composition of American Food Materials 



Food Charts 



Krst Aid Manual for Field Parties 



Price 

 received. 



$52.00 



43.00 



82.75 



63.45 



299. 70 



64.00 



27.65 



93.00 



428.00 



663.00 



543.10 



1,008.00 



153.00 



Numerous orders for 2,000 soil surveys were filled, and there were 

 some sales of practically every publication issued during the year. 



The sales of department publications during the last nme years and 

 the amounts received are shown in the following table: 



Department publications sold by the Superintendent of Documents. 



Year. 



1910 

 1911 

 1912 

 1913 

 1914 



Number 

 of copies. 



147,327 

 183, 577 

 171,866 

 183, 139 

 231,821 



Amount 

 received. 



$18,398.18 

 18,657.17 

 16, 428. 07 

 17, 885. 40 

 21,708.76 



Year. 



1915 

 1916 

 1917 

 1918 



Number 

 of copies. 



335, 863 

 327,381 

 364, 100 

 226, 800 



Amount 

 received. 



$23, Oil. 10 



22,277.84 

 26,241.69 

 20,587.88 



The pubHcations sent out by the Superintendent of Documents 

 on paid subscription hsts were as follows: 



Copies. 



Journal of Agricultural Research 4, 04.3 



Experiment Station Record 5, 892 



Bureau of Animal Industry Service and Regulatory Announcements 332 



Monthly Weather Review 1, 427 



Weekly News Letter 10, 884 



Total 32,578 



WORK OF THE DIVISION, BY BRANCHES. 



The work of the division is divided into four principal branches. 

 A brief statement regarding the operations of each foUows: 



EDITORIAL SECTION. 



The editorial section of the division, in charge of Mr. B. D. Stall- 

 ings, assistant chief, was occupied during the year in assembling 

 manuscripts, seeing that they were ready for the printer, issuing 

 requisitions for printing, transmitting manuscripts and other mate- 

 rial to the Government Printing Office, supervising the reproduction 



