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be supplied and can not be, without an increase in tbe fund for 

 printing. 



The Sixty-third Congress will have 535 Senators. Representatives, 

 arid Delegates, or 10 per cent more than the present appropriation is 

 intended to serve. Therefore an increase of at least SI 2, 500 would 

 be necessary to keep the allotment at its present rate — 12.500 copies; 

 but if the allotment to each Senator, Representative, and Delegate 

 is to be increased to 20,000 (an increase somewhat over GO per cent) 

 it would be necessarv to have an additional increase of about 60 per 

 cent, or an additional SS2,500, making the appropriation for Farmers' 

 Bulletins S220,000 and the entire apnro})riation for printing $690,000, 

 Unless provison be made for them, tlie additional Members coming in 

 on March 4, 1913, will not have any Farmers' Bulletins to tlieir credit 

 until July 1 of that year, and then the quota of all will ha^'e to be 

 reduced 10 per cent to provide for them. 



Some of the Senators, Representatives, and Delegates do not dis- 

 tribute all their allotments, but under the law the bulletins must be 

 held subject to their order. This limits the department's ability to 

 extend aid by assigning an additional allotment to those needing 

 more than their quota. If, however, a clause stating that "the un- 

 drawn balance of eachSenator.Representatise, Delegate, and Resident 

 Commissioner shall lapse on April 30," be inserted in the a])propriation 

 act, as was the case when the agricultural appropriation bill carried 

 the item for printing Farmers' Bulletins, then there need be no accu- 

 mulation carried over and the department would have a supply from 

 which extra quotas could be taken for those needing them. 



DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS. 



The only order issued affecting the work of this division during 

 the year was General Order No. 146, dated August 23, 1911,~re- 

 printed below: 



Distribution of Publications. 



To promote a careful distribution of publications and to prevent waste and duplica- 

 tion, It is hereby ordered that the following rules be rigidly observed: 



(a) distribution in the united states, CANADA, CUBA, AND MEXICO. 



1. In the distribution of the regular publications of the various bureaus, divisions, 

 and offices, preference shall be given to libraries, educational and scientific institu- 

 tions, the press. State and foreign officials connected with agriculture, exchanges, 

 and the bureau and divisional lists comprising such persons as are ren<lcring tangible 

 service to the department either by active cooperation or as special correspondents, 

 or those particularly interested in the work. Miscellaneous applicants will be supplied 

 as long as the demand continues and funds for jirinting will permit. After that appli- 

 canta will be referred to the euperintendent of documents, of whom the publications 

 can be obtained at a nominal charge under the law. This does not apply to Farmers' 

 Bulletins, emergency circulars, or circulars of general interest which are i.'^ued in 

 large editions and are distributed to the regular mailing lists and to nii.scellaneous 

 applicants. All publications shall be distributed by the Division of Publications in 

 accordance with the law of January 12, 1895. The mailinf? lists of all bureaus, divi- 

 sions, and offices shall be kept in the Divi.sion of Pul)lications, where the addressing 

 of the franks or envelopes for the mailing of publications shall be done. 



2. The Otiice of Experiment Stations shall have charge of the list of the libraries of 

 the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations. The librarian of the de- 

 partment shall have charge of the list of other libraries and institutions which receive 

 all the publications of the department. 



