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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Tlie amount expended from the printing fund for miscellaneous 

 publications and for job printing and binding for the various bureaus, 

 divisions, and otiicos is given in detail in the following table: 



Amounts expended for the varioits bureaus, divisions, and offices for printing and binding, 



1911. 



Bureau, division, or office. 



Amount. 



Division of Accounts 



Unreal! of Aniiiv.il Industry 



lUia-aii of liiological Survey 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Bureau of Entomology 



Office of Experiment Stations 



Forest Service 



Library 



Bureau of I'lant Industry 



Division of Publications 



Office of I^ublic Roads 



Bureau of Soils 



Bureau of Statistics 



Miscellaneous 



Congressional 



Total 



Expended for Farmers' Bulletins. 

 Expenditure by Weather Bureau 



Grand total 



$5, 999. 62 

 24, 684. 10 

 6, 574. 14 

 12.124.46 

 14,110.61 

 .34,351.48 

 2(1, 330. 28 

 12.420.72 

 37,028.17 

 11,679.26 

 1,673.36 

 7, 352. 74 

 22, 757. 75 

 20,681.89 

 69,731.47 



307, .500. 05 



118,012.06 



25,000.00 



450,512.11 



Expenditures for different classes of publications, etc. 



Farmers' BuUetins $118, 012. 06 



Cono7-e.''sional publications 69, 731. 45 



Periodical publications 32, 863. 91 



Bulletins, circulars, extracts, etc 112, 731. 60 



Administrative and minor publications, job printing, and binding 92, 173. 09 



Total 425, 512. 11 



Under job printing come stationery, circular letters, maps, blank 

 forms, and a variety of miscellaneous supplies for which expenditures 

 are necessarily large and have been growing rapidly owing to the 

 increased field work of the bureaus. There has also been an increase 

 in the expenditures for the publishing of administrative publications 

 issued for the guidance of officers and employees, such as Food Inspec- 

 tion Decisions, Notices of Judgment, Service Announcements, Field 

 Programs, etc. Through rigid economy the expenses for printing 

 have been kept at the lowest possible point. 



Output of publications from the department for the fiscal years 1908, 1909, 1910, and 



1911, compared. 



Forty-eight new Farmers' Bulletins were issued during the year. 

 This series of bulletins continues to be the most popular publications 

 of the department. It is safe to say that 5,000,000 more could be 



