NATIONAL AID 



already received degrees from reputable engi- 

 neering schools. 



The Department of Agriculture comes into 

 intimate touch with the activities of the New 

 Earth through its articulation with the state 

 experiment stations, through educational influ- 

 ences, through all these lines of practical work 

 indicated by the bureaus, and through the 

 close contact of many of its agents with the 

 people as they travel over the country, but in 

 a still deeper and broader manner it reaches 

 the people through its publications. During 

 a single year, 1904, the Department printed 

 twelve million, five hundred thousand copies of 

 its various publications. Six million, five hun- 

 dred thousand farmers' bulletins alone were 

 issued. During the year the Department 

 brought out nine hundred and seventy-two 

 distinct publications, three hundred and twenty- 

 nine of them being new. They contained 

 twenty-two thousand pages of reading matter, 

 a library in itself for those who are learning, 

 under the new order of things, how valuable is 

 the printed word when it is sensibly set forth. 

 There are over four thousand, five hundred 

 people directly employed in the Department, 



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