300 ANNUAL REPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Reels. 



Why Eat Cottage Cheese?. 2 



Cooperative Berry Growing in Pacific Northwest 2 



Cotton 7 



Testing Rock to Determine Its Value for Road Buildinfr 1 



Road Construction and Maintenance and Road Tests with Traction Dynamometer. 1 



Cement and Concrete Tests 1 



Gravel Road Construction 1 



Macadam Road Construction 1 



Concrete Road Construction 1 



Bituminous Macadam Road Construction 1 



Helping the Farmers of To-morrow 2 



Congressional Seed Distribution 1 



Strawberry Industry in Kentucky and Bridge Grafting on Trees 1 



Dust Explosions 1 



Preventing Spread of the Gipsy and Brown-Tail Moths 4 



Of these the equivalent of 350 reels were shown about 1,000 times 

 to about a half million people by representatives of the department. 

 They were exhibited at field and demonstration meetings, municipal 

 gatherings, schools, churches, expositions, county and State fairs, 

 and in motion-picture theaters. In addition to this educational 

 distribution, a large commercial film manufacturing and distributing 

 company made 15 releases in its screen magazine of abridgments of 

 these films, as follows: 



Work of a Forest Ranger. 

 Uncle Sam's Pig Club Work. 

 Bituminous Macadam Road Construction. 

 Sheep Grazing on National Forests. 

 Types of Horses at Washington Horse 



Show. 

 What a Careless Hunter Can Do. 

 Logging Lodgepole Pine. 



Government Poultry Farm. 

 Strawberry Industry in Kentucky. 

 Tree Planting on National Forests. 

 Egg Embryology. 

 Trap Nest Work. 



Lodgepole Pine for Railroad Ties. 

 Cooperative Berry Growing. 

 Cooperative Berry Canning. 



At least 30 copies of these films were distributed to motion-picture 

 theaters. They were shown at about 700 theaters to approximately 

 4,000,000 people. 



For tht use of our negative the department received six reels of 

 each film from which a release was made and in addition paid into 

 the Treasury 10 cents per foot of negative used. 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. 



The motion-picture laboratory was used by the Division of Films 

 of the Committee on Public Information in conjunction with the 

 force of this department for a period of about eight months. Nineteen 

 reels of negative were loaned to the Committee on Public Information 

 for the making of prints for use in this country and abroad. 



The laboratory of this department has made, developed, and 

 printed films for the Alaska Railroad Commission, the Coast Guard 

 Service, the Government Exhibit Board, the Signal Corps and Medical 

 Corps of the Army, and the Bureau of Mines. 



SPECIAL CAMPAIGNS. 



Four major campaigns were conducted through motion-picture 

 theaters during the year as follows: 



Eight thousand lantern slides dealing with the preservation of 

 perishable fruits and vegetables were distributed for use in 2,000 

 motion-picture theaters in the States of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 



