282 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



Division of Pomology _ $547. 42 



Division of Publications 3, 359. 21 



Office of Public Road Inquiries . 403.60 



Division of Soils 2,391.53 



Division of Statistics _ _ 7, 962. 42 



Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology . 4, 844. 28 



Miscellaneous 3,534.93 



Seed and Plant Introduction .... 52. 28 



Printing at branch printing office for the various Bureaus, Divisions, 



and Offices .^ 23,086.69 



Total 89,427.46 



Expenditures for printing and binding, total and by funds, 1901. 



TOT.\T. EXPENDITURES, 



Divisional publications paid from general fund (not including Farmers' 



Bulletins) . ^ $57,907.05 



Farmers' Bulletins - 51, 798. 63 



Blank books, etc 8,433.72 



Branch office ( all work) 23, 086. 69 



Divisional publications paid from special funds 17, 890. 07 



Blank books, etc., paid from special funds. 1.345.84 



Total.. 160,462.00 



EXPENDITURES BY FUNDS. 



General printing fund ($90,000, exclusive of $20,000 for Weather 

 Bureau ) : 

 Expended for the various Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices §66, 340. 77 

 Expended for printing at branch office for the various 



Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices 23, 086. 69 



$89, 427. 46 



Farmers' Bulletin fund 51,798.63 



Divisional funds: 



Bureau of Animal Industry 6, 145. 07 



Division of Biological Survey 378. 07 



Division of Botany 497. 00 



Division of Entomology 575.88 



Office of Experiment Stations 6, 079. 27 



Office of Foreign Markets 3,098.06 



Division of Statistics 2, 462. 56 



19, 235. 91 



Total. 160,462.00 



SALE OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The qnestion of an ('({uitable distribulioii of publications of the 

 Department becomes more aiul more urgent and difficult every year. 

 Th(^ Superintendent of Docnmenls, to whom, under the law, all the 

 publications of this Deimrtment should be turned over yearly, except 

 such as are required for official use, not onl}^ reports a continued 

 increase of demand, but deploi-es the fact that we are uiuible to supply 

 him with a number sufficient to meet the calls upon him. 



'V\\(i desirability of cooperating Avith this officer in the sale of our 

 publications has been fi-equently dwelt ui)on, and it is emi)hasized 

 every j'car by the uller inadequacy of the funds at our disposal for 

 printing and Ihus supplying the demands made ui)on us. Ever}' year 

 the free miscellaneous distribution needs to be further restricted, and to 

 do this with fairness to all concei-ned is not only difficult but well-nigh 

 impossible. It will be a great hel}) in the way of keeping the Superin- 

 tendent of Documents supplied witli such of our publications as he has 

 a demand for were tlie law so amended as to permit the funds received 

 by him from the purchasers, after deducting a certain percentage for 



