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ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



is a demand for it, without any expense to the department, thus 

 enabhnj: his office to operate on a strictly business basis, [)ayin{^ for 

 tlio rei)rints out of receipts from previous sales, and making no drafts 

 on the department's printing fund. Under this law applicants desir- 

 ing or needing publications of the department can secure the same 

 when the dej^artment's limited editions are exliausted and it is not 

 possible for it to order additional copies. 



In 1906 the Superintendent of Documents reprinted 43 publica- 

 tions of this department, the total number of copies issued being 

 slightly over 10,000. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911, he 

 reprinted 663 different publications, issuing a total of 170,325 copies, 

 an increase in five years of 1,700 per cent. 



Classes of agricultural publications reissu£d by the Superintendent of Documents during 



the fiscal year 1910-11. 



The following table shows the agricultural publications reissued by 

 the Superintendent of Documents, classified according to the main 

 branch of the department which originally contributed them: 



Under the law of January 12, 1895, all remittances for publications 

 should be forwarded to the Superintendent of Documents, Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. By instructions conspicuously printed at the 

 head of the Monthly List of Publications correspondents are advised 

 to apply to that official when they desire to obtain any publications 

 after they have been advised that the department's supply is exhausted. 

 Notwithstanding every effort to prevent it, money in payment for 

 publications continues to come to this division, the amount received 

 during the fiscal year being $1,797.87, an increase of $527.60, all of 

 which was forwarded to the Superintendent of Documents by reg- 

 istered mail. A careful record of all amounts so received and for- 

 warded was kept in the division. 



