764 



ANNUAL REPOBTS OF DEPABTMENT OF AGRICULTUBE. 



The following table shows the agricultural publications reissued by 

 the superintendent of documents, classified according to the main 

 ])ranch of tlie department which originally contributed them: 



Agricultural publications reissued by the superintendent of documents during the fiscal 

 year 1912, classified according to the bureau or office originally contributing them. 



Bureau or olFice. 



Copies. 



Office of the Secretary 



Bnreaii of Animal Industry.. 



Biological Survey 



Bureau of Chertustry 



Bureau of Entomology 



Oltice of Experiment Stations 



Forest Service 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Office of Public Roads 



Division of Publications 



Bureau of Soils 



Bureau of Statistics 



Weather Bureau 



Total 



1,700 



15,100 



10,200 



12,650 



10,350 



27,700 



8,150 



21,000 



5,150 



1,200 



4,150 



200 



2,900 



120,450 



Under the law of January 12, 1895, all remittances for publica- 

 tions should be forwarded to the superintendent of documents, 

 Government Printing Office. By instructions conspicuously printed 

 at the head of the Monthl}^ List of Publications correspondents are 

 advised to apply to that official when they desire to obtain any pub- 

 lications after they have been advised that the department's supply 

 is exliausted. Notwithstanding every effort to prevent it, money 

 in payment for publications continues to come to this division, the 

 amount received during the fiscal year being $2,248.33, an increase 

 of S450.46, all of which was forwarded to the superintendent of docu- 

 ments by registered mail. A careful record of all amounts so received 

 and forwarded was kept in the division. 



FARMERS' BULLETINS. 



It is now 23 years smce the first Farmers' Bulletin was issued, and 

 the enormous growth of the series has demonstrated the need of brief, 

 inexpensive publications, which convey useful information to prac- 

 tical people m plain every-day English. At first the growth was com- 

 parativelv slow; but at this time the number has reached 500, and 

 the totafoutput is over 98,000,000. 



The growth of the popularity of this series of bulletins is not more 

 clearly illustrated by the total number distributed than by the fact 

 that the annual distribution has been increased from 150,000 in 1890 

 to nearly 11,000,000 in 1912 with an unsatisfied demand for at least 

 5,000,000 more copies than the funds at the department's disposal 

 could supply. Schools of all grades and institutions of higher educa- 

 tion are using them in connection with their courses of instruction — 

 a use that it is extremely desirable to encourage by a generous response 

 to the increasingly large demand. 



The following table shows the output of Farmers' Bulletins during 

 the past six years and the expenditures therefor: 



