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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Since the discontinuance of the Weather Bureau series of bulle- 

 tins such professional papers as can not be incorporated in the regular 

 issues of the Monthly Weather Review are published in a series of 

 supplements, of which No. 2, prepared during the last previous fiscal 

 year, was issued in two parts during the present year. 



In addition to its serials and periodicals, the Weather Bureau 

 issued Part 12, Daily River Stages at River Stage Stations of the 

 Principal Rivers of the United States for the years 1913 and 1914; 

 Circular L, Instruction Division, Instructions for the Installation 

 and Operation of Class A Evaporating Stations; Instructions for Spe- 

 cial River and Rainfall Observers; Tables for Computing Time of 

 Moonrise and Moonset; and Station Regulations. Owing to the 

 continuance of the European war the issue of the daily weather map 

 of the Northern Hemisphere has not been resumed since its discon- 

 tinuance August 6, 1914. 



The total daily, weekly, and monthly issue and disposition of 

 periodical publications at the close of the fiscal year was as follows; 



Domestic 

 addresses 



Foreign 

 addresses. 



Total. 



Weather Map, first edition, daily 



Weather Map, second edition, daily n 



Monthly Weather Review 



National Weather and Crop Bulletin (weekly, April to September; 



monthly, October to March) 



Snow and Ice Bulletin (weekly during winter) 



Climatological Data . monthly 



Monthly Meteorological Summary 



Forecast cards, daily 



Forecast cards, weekly 



990 



357 



1,049 



3,720 



1,103 



239 



250 



1,550 



240 



83 

 376 



30 



7 



71 



990 



440 



1,425 



3,750 



1,110 



310 



250 



1,550 



240 



The above-mentioned publications were issued at Washington. 

 Many thousands of weather maps, weather bulletins, river bulletins, 

 cotton-region bulletins, and daily forecast cards are issued at Weather 

 Bureau stations throughout the United States in addition to those 

 enumerated above. 



NEW FEATURES OF THE WORK. 



In September, 1915, consideration was given to the nutrition pub- 

 lications in the series of Farmers' Bulletins, and decision reached 

 that such bulletins should in future be published as Professional 

 Papers in the departmental series of bulletins, and that briefer and 

 more popularly written bulletins on the same subjects be prepared 

 and published as Farmers' Bulletins. 



The Department Circular, of which 8 numbers had been issued, was 

 discontinued in January, 1916. 



In May, 1916, the general question of the reprinting of Farmers' 

 Bulletins received careful consideration. Heretofore these bulletins 

 were reprinted unless objection was made by the originating Bureau. 

 It was decided that the committee on examination of manuscripts 

 would make a careful study of all the Farmers' Bulletins with the view 

 to reporting upon their suitability for further distribution, with the 

 understanding that recommendations would be made to the Secre- 

 tary at the beginning of the next fiscal year. It was decided that 

 reprints of Farmers' Bulletins should not be ordered except upon 



