190 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Cooperation with other departments in the form of advice con- 

 cerning the purchase and best use of wood was continued. 



A directory of American sawmills was prepared and published in 

 cooperation with the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 

 Department of Commerce. The purpose of this directory is to fur- 

 nish wood-consuming factories and the lumber trade with information 

 as to where the different kinds of lumber may be purchased, what 

 mills can furnish each kind, and what mills can supply a certain 

 pattern of lumber, certain classes of structural timber, and other 

 forest products. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Thirty-four new publications were issued. In all, 277,000 copies 

 of Forest Service publications were distributed. The total number 

 of books and pamphlets in the library was increased to 18,852; 934 

 new ones were added and 327 duplicates and out-of-date publications 

 were eliminated. The field libraries maintained in the district and 

 supervisors' offices and the Forest Products Laboratory contain 

 29,527 books and pamphlets — a slight decrease in the number on file 

 last year, due to the transfer of some books from the custody of the 

 library to that of the Solicitor of the department. 



Members of the Forest Service delivered about 426 public addresses, 

 mainly at expositions and in response to requests from educational 

 institutions, associations of lumbermen, technical societies, and 

 National Forest users. 



Exhibits consisting of models, specimens, maps, drawings, trans- 

 parencies, and bromide enlargements were made at the Panama- 

 California International Exposition, San Diego, Cal. ; the Tenth Dry 

 Farming Exposition, Denver, Colo.; the Safety First Exposition at 

 the New National Museum, Washington, D. C.; and later, on the 

 Baltimore & Ohio Government Safety First special, which visited 

 various points throughout the East; the Philadelphia Civic Exposi- 

 tion; the Harrisonburg, Va., Fair; the Grand Roanoke, Va., Fair; 

 the Lynchburg, Va., Fair; and the Johnson County, Va., Fair. The 

 exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Fran- 

 cisco, was continued over from the preceding year. At this exposi- 

 tion 260 illustrated lectures were delivered and a series of motion 

 pictures of an educational nature shown daily. At the Panama- 

 California Exposition occasional lectures were given throughout the 

 entire year. Lectures were also given at the Tenth Dry Farming 

 Exposition and at the Safety First Exposition in the New National 

 Museum. ' Forest Service representatives attended and demonstrated 

 exhibits at all those named except the Philadelphia Civic Exposition. 



More than 1 ,700 lantern slides were loaned to 386 persons engaged 

 in educational work. Traveling exhibits of photographs, maps, draw- 

 ings, and wood samples were loaned to 172 schools and libraries. 



