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graphic work in connection with the illustrating of bulletins and the 

 ordering of apparatus and other equipment. 



CLERICAL AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS. 



The total appropriation for the Bureau of Chemistry for the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1911, was $985,700, of wliich amount $702,340 

 was for the enforcement of the food and drugs act, $109,000 was for 

 studies in the application of chemistry to agriculture and for collab- 

 oration with other departments, $5,000 was for investigating the 

 character of the chemical and physical tests which are appHed to 

 American food products in foreign countries and for inspecting the 

 same before shipment, and $79,360 was for statutory salaries. 



A total of 130,000 letters was written to approximately 24,896 cor- 

 respondents; 64,700 letters were received, filed, and indexed; 88,350 

 mimeograph letters were sent out, treating of 446 subjects; 2,468 

 purchase orders were drawn for current supplies for the offices and 

 laboratories; 9,500 vouchers were checked and passed to the dis- 

 bursing officer of the department for payment; 800 letters of authori- 

 zation were issued to tlie m.embers of this bureau; 5,955 manufac- 

 turer's or dealer's guarantees under the food and drugs act were 

 received, examined, filed, and serial numbers assigned thereto. In 

 the interstate office complete records were kept of the collection, 

 analysis, and disposition of all samples collected under the food and 

 drugs act, as well as the development, progress, and disposition of each 

 seizure and case based on a violation of the law. These records are 

 complex and involve a vast mass of detail. Verbatim reports of all 

 hearings before the Board of Food and Drug Inspection were made. 

 In addition, complete records were kept of the analysis and action on 

 aU import cases under the food and drugs act. 



THE PRINCIPAL PROJECTS PLANNED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 



1911-12. 



INSPECTION WORK. 



The greater portion of the coming fiscal year will be devoted to the 

 collection of official samples of foods and drugs for analysis; to the 

 close scrutiny of factories and conditions attending the production of 

 such products; and to the interstate movement in adulterated or 

 misbranded goods for the purpose of suppressing traffic therein. In- 

 spection work will be carried on in cooperation with the scientific 

 divisions of the bureau along the lines of investigation which may be 

 planned by each division. One of the new subjects to be taken up 

 during the coming 3^ear \vill be the investigation of the colors used in 

 food products, the practice of drying fish and artificially coloring the 

 same to give the semblance of thorouglily dried or cured fish being 

 one phase of the subject to be investigated. The inspection of the 

 milk supply furnished cities will be continued, as will also the close 

 scrutiny of flour and cereals, dairy products, sirups, coffees, eggs, 

 vinegars, etc. 



The collection of official samples of so-called patent or proprietary 

 medicines, many of which have in past years been declared by the 

 courts to be misbranded, will be abandoned in view of a recent adverse 



