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ANNUAL KEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



FIXED CHARGES AGAINST THE PRINTING FUND. 



There are certain fixed charges for publications against the printing 

 fund, amounting this year to $174,348.97, and approximately this 

 sum must be deducted from the amount of the appropriation in 

 order to obtain the balance available for miscellaneous reports of 

 investigations, administrative printing, etc., which is constantly in- 

 creasing. The following statement shows the fixed publications and 

 the amount involved: 



Expenditures for publications, documents, and other work regularly printed, constituting 



fixed charges against the appropriation. 1 



Publication. 



Cost for 



year. 



Experiment Station Record 



Journal of Agricultural Research, and 



separates 



Weekly News Letter 



Department circular 



Monthly List of Publications 



Monthly Crop Report 



Yearbook (including separates) 



Field Program 



Directory of Bureau of Animal Industry 



States Relations Service Monthly 



Program of Work 



$13,919.92 



19,581.10 



29,025.16 



1,342.17 



3,051.30 



13, 887. 99 



19,950.96 



431.32 



730. 12 



747. 08 



2,475.91 



Publication. 



Soil surveys and full report 



Expenditures, States Relations Service. 



Annual Report of the Secretary 



Annual Reports, Department of Agri- 

 culture 



Service and Regulatory Announcements 



Annual reports 



Statistical blanks 



Organization List 



Total 



Cost for 

 year. 



$47,913.41 



2,207.61 



466.40 



596.80 

 7,838.99 

 1,085.34 

 7,415.79 

 1,681.60 



174,348.97 



i No figures for the Weather Bureau are included in this table. 



It was necessary during the year to hold up from publication 

 more than 100 manuscripts of department bulletins on account of 

 insufficient funds. The situation was so serious that a supplemental 

 estimate of $100,000 was submitted by the Secretary and allowed by 

 Congress. This increase will enable the department to do consider- 

 able additional printing during the ensuing year, but it is insufficient 

 to meet fully the requirements of the department. The amount of 

 administrative printing, comprising blanks, blank books, instruc- 

 tions, regulations, decisions, etc., necessary to enable the department 

 to execute the numerous laws for the enforcement of which the 

 department has, during the last three years, been charged by Con- 

 gress, has enormously increased, with the result that the demands 

 on the printing fund have been large and the amount left available 

 for printing results of the department's investigations and work has 

 been curtailed. Of the increase granted for the current fiscal year not 

 to exceed $40,000 was for Farmers' Bulletins and not to exceed 

 $60,000 for miscellaneous printing. 



STATISTICS OF PUBLICATION WORK. 



The following statement shows the contributions to the department 

 series of bulletins and the Farmers' Bulletin series by the various 

 bureaus, divisions, and offices: 



