86 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



The usual anuual game piiblications were issued, including the 

 " Direc-toiy of Game Officials," " Summary of the Game Laws for 

 101 1,'" and posters showing the open seasons for game. 



DIVISION or ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 



During the year there were received, audited, and paid 129,584 

 accounts, amounting to $1G,032,44().08. More than 5,000 of these 

 accounts, moreover, were so-called combined accounts, in connection 

 with which there was probably a saving of at least 25,000 checks, to 

 say nothing of the saving of other clerical labor. There were also 

 audited and sent to the Treasury for payment G,241 accounts. In the 

 payment of the 129,584 accounts mentioned above it was necessary to 

 draw 212 requisitions on the Treasury and issue 241,544 checks. 

 There were issued during the year 30,940 purchase orders for sup- 

 plies, G,683 letters of authorization for travel, 47,225 requests for 

 passenger travel, and 11,105 requests for department bills of lading 

 and requests on the Quartermaster General for the transportation 

 of Government property, while about 187,600 letters were written 

 or received in the ordinary transaction of business. 



To carry on the work of the Department of Agriculture during 

 the fiscal year ended June 30, 1912, Congress appropriated $16,900,- 

 016 for the ordinary expenses of the department, in addition to which 

 permanent annual appropriations and special appropriations amount- 

 ing to $6,190,826.15 were available, making a total of $23,090,842.15. 



The disbursements of the department to June 30, 1912, pertaining 

 to the fiscal year 1912 amounted to $17,772,993.80, and the greater 

 part of the balance of $5,317,848.35 will be required for the settlement 

 of outstanding liabilities. 



The amount for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for 

 the several branches of the department was $71,804.75, and all ac- 

 counts for the fiscal year 1910 having been settled, the unexpended 

 balance of appropriations for that year, amounting to $344,760.56, 

 was covered into the Treasury on June 30, 1912. The account for the 

 fiscal year 1911 is still open. 



The amount estimated for the fiscal year 1914 in the annual esti- 

 mates for the regular appropriation bill is $18,287,230, which in- 

 cludes $1,440,000 for agricultural experiment stations, an increase of 

 $1,635,734 over the appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1913. In 

 addition to this, there will be available permanent annual appropria- 

 tions amounting to $5,689,200, making a total of $23,976,430. 



There is also an estimate in the sundry civil bill for printing 

 and binding for this department amounting to $512,500, making a 

 grant total of $24,488,930. The increase requested in the regular 

 appropriation bill will be used principally in the extension of the 



