288 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Summarij of drawings prepared during the fiscal year 1917. 



Office of the Secretary 393 



Weather Bureau 21 



Bureau of Plant Industry 308 



Bureau of Animal Industry 531 



Forest Service 11 



Bureau of Chemistry 71 



Bureau of Biological Survey 75 



Bureau of Crop Estimates 125 



Bureau of Entomology 35 



States Relations Ser\ice 204 



Division of Publications 15 



Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering 16 



Office of Markets and Rural Organization 34 



Federal Horticultural Board 1 



Total 1,840 



The Motion-Picture Laboratory. 



This work, which is under the direction of the committee on 

 motion-picture activities, produced a total of 17,730 feet of negative 

 film and 62,530 feet of positive film. It also developed 4,360 feet of 

 negative film made elsewhere. 



Of the above film, 2,800 feet of negative and 3,250 feet of positive 

 were used in producing and assembling subjects for other depart- 

 ments of the Government service, the expense being defrayed by the 

 department interested. 



Five new films comprising 18 reels were completed for the various 

 bureaus and offices of the department. These films were used ex- 

 tensively in connection with field and demonstration meetings and 

 were shown at country schoolhouses, churches, and county fairs by 

 the department's representatives. 



document section. 



Distribution of Publications. 



On July 1, 1916, there were 7,561,293 publications in the hands 

 of the Superintendent of Docimients and available for distribution 

 by the department. During the fiscal year just ended 41,991,331 

 copies of publications were printed, making the total ttumber of 

 copies available for distribution 49,272,624. In addition to these 

 pubUcations there were 6,100,000 lists of Farmers' Bulletins, making 

 the total distribution 55,572,624. Of the entire number available for 

 distribution 47,912,886 copies were distributed, leaving a balance of 

 7,739,738 copies on hand at the close of business Jmie 30, 1917. 



Tliis distribution, which exceeds in its grand total that of any pre- 

 vious year, is divided, mainly, into two classes, namely, Farmers' 

 Bulletins and miscellaneous pubHcations. Of the miscellaneous pub- 

 lications available for distribution, aggregatiiig 29,130,086, there were 

 14,047,426 distributed by Sirperintendent of Documents and 12,333,- 

 200 by the folding room of this ofiice, leaving a balance on hand 

 June 30, 1917, of 2,632,460. 



There were 15,432,260 Farmei-s' Bulletins distributed by the Su- 

 perintendent of Documents during the fiscal year, leaving a balance 

 on hand June 30, 1917, of 5,107,278. Of the total number of that 

 series of bullethis distributed, 6,621,110 copies were distributed upon 



