294 ANNUAL REPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



.shijiping. Special reports of weather and of shippin*^ bound for 

 Britisli Columbia ports are also furnished to Victoria, British Colum- 

 bia. The o])onitig of now salmon industries at Neah Bay, where about 

 2,000 fishennon, inannin*^ o^>{) or 400 fishing launches, make their 

 headquarters during the salmon season, has largely increased the 

 commercial business handled over this line. 



The total line receipts collected during the year at stations on the 

 seacoast telegrai)h lines were $2,998.49, which amount has been de- 

 posited in the Treasury of the United States. 



PUBLICATIONS DIVISION. 



This division has kept the stations fully supplied with the necessary 

 blank forms, maps, and forecast cards, and continued the preparation 

 and distribution of the Monthly Weather K^view, the Bulletin of the 

 Mount Weather Observatory, the National Weather Bulletin, the 

 Snow and Ice Bulletin, the Washington edition of the daily weather 

 map, and the Meteorological Charts of the Oceans. 



There were published during the year 500 copies of Bulletin No. 39, 

 "A Course in Sleteorology and Physical Geography"; 2,500 copies of 

 Bulletin No. 40, " The Kelation Between the Precipitation Over the 

 Watershed of the Ohio River Above and the Stream-Flow at Cin- 

 cinnati "; and 2,500 copies of Bulletin No. 41, " Forecasting Frost in 

 the North Pacific States." Also, there were reprinted 2,000 copies 

 of Bulletin V, " Frost Data in the United States." 



Binding was well advanced, including reviews and maps to date, 

 and about 1,280 volumes nearly equally divided between the library 

 and the Climatological Division, in both of which there had been 

 large accumulations. The lithographic work was increased some- 

 what, chiefly by a larger issue of the Meteorological Charts of the 

 Oceans and additional matter published therein. 



DIVISION OP SUPPLIES. 



In addition to its routine duties this division is charged with the 

 purchase and inspection of all supplies for the central office and 

 stations, including the preparation of specifications for articles not 

 obtainable under the General Supply Committee's contracts. 



Ten additional stations were equipped during the year with new 

 stereotyping outfits for commercial map castings, making a total of 

 GO new outfits in actual use at the present time. This number does 

 not include stations that were equipped with the old-style outfits 

 prior to 1910 or stations where the commercial maps are produced 

 by other processes. 



With the assistance of the drafting room a new pattern for the 

 outlines of the large glass maps was prepared in this division. This 

 has added materially to their accuracy and general appearance. De- 

 tailed specifications for the construction and color scheme of these 

 maps were also prepared, printed copies of which, together with blue 

 prints of the new map pattern, have been supplied to such manu- 

 facturers as were invited to bid on furnishing and installing the 

 maps. Through competition thus secured among art-glass manu- 

 facturers the average cost of glass maps has been reduced from about 

 $350 to less than $200. Seven new glass maps were installed during 

 the j'-ear — one each at Chicago, San Antonio, Seattle, New Orleans, 

 Tampa, Evanss ille, and Fort Wayne. 



