268 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



New publications issued, 1907-1916. 



Manuscripts comprising 65,653 folios, with 3,934 illustrations, were 

 read, edited, and prepared for the printer. The proof reading and 

 revising comprised 6,872 galleys, as compared with 6,864 galleys of the 

 previous year, and 34,598 pages in contrast to 27,916 pages for the 

 year 1915. 



It wiD be seen from the following table that the new numbered 

 bulletins were 230 — 47 more than last year — and that, by adding the 

 rther documents which are classed as publications, the aggregate of 

 new public documents issued under the supervision of this office was 

 944, or 31 more than the number reported last year. In addition to 

 the figures contained in the table, there were 559 press notices issued 

 from the Office of Information and the Forest Service during the 

 year, which were mimeographed in the Division of Publications and 

 comprised 1,104 legal-cap sheets, amounting in all to 1,819,751 copies. 



