DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



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of the former is the correspondence required to intelligently furnish 

 information requested from congressional and miscellaneous sources. 

 In fact, a congressional information service is maintained. The con- 

 duct of this correspondence required the preparation of 88,798 

 communications. Miscellaneous applicants forwarded 612,200 re- 

 quests from all parts of the country, requiring the issuing of 535,622 

 orders on the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing 

 Office, and the addressing of 602,000 cards advising applicants at 

 what price publications, the supply of which is exhausted, might be 

 secured from him. 



The different bureaus of the department forwarded 24,000 orders 

 for Farmers' Bulletins, averaging somewhat less than 25 copies to 

 the order, these documents often being used for furnishing informa- 

 tion requested by applicants in different parts of the country. 



There are 204 mailing lists, comprising 181,107 addresses, main- 

 tained in the machine room in this division. 



The labor-saving devices of various kinds installed in the machine 

 room include duplicating machines, stencil-cutting machines, folding 

 machines, and stapling machines. 



It will be seen from the summary given below that the office 

 cooperated with eighteen other offices and bureaus of the department. 



Work done in the machine rooms for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916. 

 FLEXOTYPE, MULTIGRAPH, AND MIMEOGRAPH WORK. 



Bureau. 



Number of jobs. 



Flexotype 

 and multi- 

 graph. 



Mimeo- 

 graph. 



Number 

 of pages. 



Number 

 of copies. 



Secretary's office.. 

 Chief clerk's office. 

 Solicitor's office... 



States Relations Service. 



Office of Information 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Division of Publications 



Office of Public Roads 



Federal Horticultural Board 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Biological Survey 



Appom tment clerk's office 



Bureau of Entomology 



Insecticide and Fungicide Board . 



Bureau of Crop Estimates 



Bureau of Animal Industry 



Division of Accounts 



Office of Markets and Rural Organization. 



Total. 



123 



28 

 55 



262 



153 



84 



24 



91 



1,444 



66 

 3 

 SO 

 23 

 15 



19 



2,475 



5 

 ..... 



'571 



16 



170,890 



4,633 



37, 477 



79, 960 



16,287 



553, 100 



14,000 



500 



1, 819, 751 



610, 420 



335, 550 



1,500 



73,700 



147,500 



456,870 



49,700 



123,600 



2,600 



102,024 



9,675 



92,575 



20,700 



13,925 



21, 125 



525 



12, 150 



131,375 



4,235 



36, 777 



59,910 



641 



205,500 



7,000 



500 



904,778 



528, 125 



324,300 



1,500 



40,000 



123,900 



363,330 



5,500 



95,250 



2,600 



76,692 



9,025 



92,275 



20,700 



13,775 



12,125 



25 



8,100 



616 



4,770,737 



3,067,938 



Total number pages assembled. 

 Total number copies stapled. . . 



769,970 

 172,937 



