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New York and New Jersey, where reports received by the department 

 indicated that there was danger of loss of a large amount of such 

 perishables. 



The Forest Service conducted a forest fire prevention campaign 

 through motion pictures in California, in cooperation with State 

 agencies and a private film corporation. 



Eight commercial motion-picture weekly reels carried special 

 pictmes regarding the production of back-yard poultry, together 

 with trailers m'ging that more poultry be raised as a war measure. 



Tlie largest campaign dealt with farm labor. The eight weeklies 

 referred to carried news pictures, animated cartoons, and trailers 

 from March until midsummer making appeals for the enlisting in 

 farm work of people from the cities. Many other commercial films 

 also carried trailers on this subject. While it is impossible to measure 

 the effect of these efforts, it is known that millions of people were 

 reached thereby and that much farm labor was recruitecl as a direct 

 result. The motion-picture companies and theaters have given the 

 department valuable cooperation in placing information and appeals 

 of emergency character before the public. 



DOCUMENT SECTION. 



DISTRIBUTION OP PUBLICATIONS. 



The document section, m charge of Mr. Francis J. P. Cleary, directs 

 the distribution of the bulletins, reports, documents, circulars, leaflets, 

 posters, etc., issued by the department. The actual mailing of the 

 publications is done at the office of the Superintendent of Documents, 

 Government Printing Office, except in the case of emergency publi- 

 cations requiring immediate issuance, which are sent out from the 

 document section. On account of the great increase in the number 

 and variety of printed documents, including war-emergency circulars, 

 etc., the work of the section far exceeded that of any previous year. 



On July 1, 1917, there were on hand 7,739,738 publications of all 

 classes, including those at the department. During the year ended 

 June 30, 1918, 92,954,011 publications were received, which, together 

 with the stock on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, made 

 available 100,693,749 publications, to which may be added press 

 notices and lists of Farmers' Bulletins, numbermg 10,786,562, making 

 a grand total of 111,480,311 publications available for distribution. 



Of the number available for distribution 99,222,321 were distrib- 

 uted, as follows: 



Publications distributed. 



Miscellaneous publications 65, 298, 266 



Farmers' Bulletins 23, 137, 529 



Lists of Farmers' Bulletins 8, 900, 000 



Press notices 1, 886, 526 



On July 1, 1918, there remained on hand 12,184,304 publica- 

 tions, not including press notices and fists of Farmers' Bulletins, 

 divided into 1,768,915 of the miscellaneous class and 10,415,389 

 Farmers' Bulletins. Included in the miscellaneous distribution were 

 the regular annual publications, the divisional serial publications, 

 and publications in the nature of emergency leaflets, circulars, and 

 posters. 



