DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



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at an early date. The revised copy for the Cattle Book has not yet 

 been submitted. The department will receive no quota of these 

 reports, and therefore will have none for distribution. 



NUMBER OF PUBLICATSIONS ISSUED DURING THE PAST 21 YEARS. 



The following statement shows the total number of copies of all 

 publications of the department issued during the last 22 years, aggre- 

 gating the enormous total of 223,572,467 copies: 



Publications of all kinds issued by the department, 1890-1911. 



SALE OF THE DEPARTMENT S PUBLICATIONS. 



The Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing 

 Office sold 183,577 copies of this department's publications during 

 the fiscal year, exceeding the sales of the previous year by 36,250, 

 although the cash received by him w^as only $258.99 more than was 

 reported during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910. 



While the publications sold ranged from small circulars to bound 

 volumes of 1,300 pages, the large increase in the number of copies 

 sold and the small excess of last year's receipts over the previous 

 year's indicate that the demand for the small popular pamphlets pre- 

 pared for the use of the general reader has greatly increased, and at the 

 expense of the larger and more technical bulletins and reports. The 

 average price per document was about 11 cents, a decrease of H cents. 



It is rather remarkable that 68,320 copies of Farmers' Bulletins 

 were sold by the Superintendent of Documents at 5 cents each, when 

 millions were distributed free by the department and Senators and 

 Representatives in Congress. 



The increase in the sales of the department's publications wdthin 

 recent years is shown in the following table: 



Sales of agricultural ■publications by the Superintendent of Documents during the fiscal 



years 1906-1911. 



It will be observed that the number of copies sold during this fiscal 

 year was about 385 per cent of the number sold in 1906. 



AUTHORITY TO REPRINT. 



Under the operation of a provision of the law, the Superintendent 

 of Documents can reprint and sell any publication, so long as there 



