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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



EXPENDITURES FOR PRINTING AND BINDING. 



The i-mml)cr of requisitions for printing and binding drawn upon 

 the Govornmont Printing Office was 4,806. The appropriation for 

 printing and binding was SI 0,000 more than for the preceding year, 

 namely, $470,000. Of this amount $47,000, an increase of $22,000, 

 was expended by the Weather Bureau. Of the remaining $423,000 

 the expenditures for the various bureaus, divisions, and offices 

 amounted to $300,228.58, being $7,271.47 less than for the jear 1911; 

 and $122,753.33 was expended for Farmers' Bulletins, an mcrease of 

 $4,741.27 by comparison with the preceding year. 



A considerable amount of work of all kinds ordered from the Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office and urgently needed by the department could 

 not be undertaken or completed on account of the exhausted appro- 

 priation. 



The amount expended from the printing fund for miscellaneous 

 publications and for job printing and binding for the various bureaus, 

 divisions, and offices is given in detail in the following table: 



Amounts expended for the various bureaus, divisions, and offices for printing and binding, 



1912. 



There has been an increase in the expenditures for the publishing 

 of administrative publications issued for the guidance of officers and 

 employees, such as food-inspection decisions, notices of judgment, 

 service announcements, field programs, etc. Through rigid economy 

 the expenses for printing have been kept at the lowest possible point. 



Output of publications from the department for the fiscal years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 



and 1912 compared. 



NUIVIBER OF PUBLICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE PAST 23 YEARS. 



The following statement shows the total number of copies of all 

 publications of the department issued during the last 23 years, 

 aggregating the enormous total of 258,251,024 copies: 



