DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



285 



Among the other piibhc.atious for which there was considora})le 

 demand upon the Superintendent of Documents were: 



Publication. 



Bill. 68, 'Bnrcati of Animal Industry, Information Conneming the Miloh Goats 



Food charts, 1 ,0S5 sets '. 



Forest Fires of the Pacific Slope 



Dept. Bui. 57, Water Supply, liunilnng, and Sewage Disposal for Country Homos 



Dept. Bui. 175, Mushrooms and Other Common Fimgi 



Dept. Bui. 354, Forests of Porto Rico 



Dept. Bui. 319, Fermented Millcs 



Cir. 65, Office of Secretarv, Regulations for Carr\ing out the Federal Aid Road 

 Act i 



3,600 



62.00 



Notwithstanding the very wide free- distribution of the Farmers' 

 Bulletins by the department and by vSenators, Representatives, and 

 Delegates in Congress, the Superintendent of Dociunents sold 132,247 

 copies of them at 5 cents each. 



Although at the head of all lists of publications issued by this 

 department instructions are plainly printed advising applicants 

 desiring to purchase publications to apply to and send remittances 

 only to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 

 Office, many sucn requests accompanied by post-office money order, 

 cash, or stamps are addressed to the department. A careful record 

 of these is made in this office, and the letters and remittances are 

 forwarded daily to the Superintendent of Documents. These remit- 

 tances amounted to S3,426.78 during the fiscal year ended June 

 30, 1917. 



WORK OF TH^] DIVISION BY BRANCHES. 



The four branches of the work of the division are under the imme- 

 diate supervision of assistants in charge, as follows: (1) Editorial 

 section, B. D. Stallings, editor and assistant chief; (2) indexing sec- 

 tion, Charles H. Greathouse; (3) illustration section, A. B. Boettcher; 

 (4) document section, Francis J. P. Cleary. 



A brief statement of the operations of each branch follows : 



EDITORIAL WORK. 



Tlie assistant in charge of manuscripts, of the Office of the Secretary, 

 examined, criticized, and edited all manuscripts and approved them 

 before they were forwarded for printing; but during the greater part 

 of the year the more routine editorial work, the preparation of the 

 manuscripts for the printer, and the reading of proofs, was done in 

 the editorial section of the Division of Publications. 



During the latter part of the fiscal year, however, all the strictly 

 editorial work was taken over by the assistant in charge of manu- 

 scripts, of the Office of the Secretary, and three assistant editoi*s 

 have been detailed from this division to his office. Since that date no 

 editorial work has been done in this division and its editorial section 

 has been restricted to the supervision of the details inherent to the 

 issuing of requisitions for printing, the transmitting of manuscript 

 to the Public Printer, and tlie receiviiig and distributing of proof to 

 and from the Government Printing Ofnce and the editorial offices of 

 the different bureaus. 



