REPORT OF THE EDITOR, DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Division of Publications, 

 Washington, D. C, Ocfoher 1, 1902. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith, for your information and 

 consideration, a rei^ort on the work of tliis Division for the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1902, together with recommendations in regard to 

 future operations. 



Respectfully, Geo. Wm. Hill, 



Ed dor and Chief. 

 Hon. James Wilson, Secretary. 



work of the year. 



relation of the division with other branches of the 



department. 



The work of the Division of Publications reflects and must always 

 necessarily represent the activity of the other Bureaus and Divisions 

 of the Department. All the information acquired in these several 

 Bureaus and Divisions by the means at their command finds its expres- 

 sion necessarily in the form of publications which pass through this 

 office. Every enlargement of the scope of work covered by anj^ other 

 Bureau or Division, especially the adoption of entirely new lines of 

 work, involves an addition to the work of the Division of Publica- 

 tions. One of the consequences of this is that the output of work is 

 not controlled by the Editor, whose duty it is in this connection sim- 

 ply to push forward the work with all the celerity possible and to 

 keep it within the bounds of the appropriations controlled by him for 

 the purpose. 



In no previous year since the Department Avas organized has this 

 manifestation of activity in all the branches of the Department been 

 so evident. This is shown by the various statements given under the 

 head of ' ' Statistics of publication work. " 



publications of the year. 



Including publications of the Weather Bureau, 85 in number, and 

 which do not pass through this office, the total number of iDublications 

 issued by the Department during the fiscal year was 757. Of those 

 handled in this Division, 355 were new and covered 18,184 printed 

 pages; 317 were reprints, and of these i-eprints 236 were Farmers' Bul- 

 letins and aggregated 5,575,Q00 copies. (See Appendix B.) The 

 increase in the matter edited during the past year, counting i3ages of 

 new matter, was 25 per cent over 1901 and 75 per cent more than in 

 1900. The total number of requisitions issued for printing during the 

 year was 3,514, of which 1,014 were drawn on the main office. 



In the number of copies distributed the increase was very large. 

 The total number of copies of all publications issued during the year 

 (a list of which is given in Appendix A of this report) Avas 10,586,580, 

 as against 7,899,281 for the year i^revious. 



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