6 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Report of the Chief of the Division of Account.H and Disbursement^ 551 



Character of work 551 



Oi^anization 551 



Work of the year 552 



Appropriations, expenditures, etc 552 



Lost checks 552 



Requisitions, letters, and request.s 552 



Temporary special disbursing agents 552 



Mileage books 553 



Combined accounts 553 



Appropriations, disbursements, and unexpended balances for the fiscal 



year 1911 553 



Buildings rented in the District of Columbia 564 



Estimates of appropriations 564 



Fiscal affairs of the Forest Service 573 



Annual report of expenditures 575 



Centralization of fiscal work 575 



The Weeks law 575 



Condition of work in the division 576 



Finances of the department for 72 years 576 



Report of the Editor 615 



Summary 615 



Work of the year 616 



Weather Bureau publications 617 



Expenditures for printing and 1)inding 617 



Farmers' Bulletins 618 



The Yearbook for 1910 620 



Revised editions of the horse and cattle books 620 



Number of publications issued during the past 21 years 621 



Sale of the department's publications 621 



Departmental orders 623 



Editing 626 



Indexing 628 



Illustrating 629 



Distributing publications 631 



Work of the division for 1912 635 



Recommendations for 1913 635 



Use of our publications by schools and universities 636 



Publications for restricted areas 636 



A Farmers' Bulletin for each State 636 



About ] 00-page publications 636 



Remittances for publications 637 



Insufficient supply of Yearbooks 637 



Inconvenient and congested office rooms 637 



Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics 639 



Introduction 639 



Crop-reporting system 639 



Organization 640 



New featiu-es in Crop Reporter 642 



Work of the assistant statistician 643 



Work of the office of the chief clerk 644 



Work of the Division of Domestic Crop Reports 645 



Work of the Di\dsion of Production and Distribution * 647 



Work of the Div-ision of Research and Reference 649 



Farm values and purchasing power of farm products 650 



