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report of the State Department the report for 1919 should 

 have been the second annual report of the State Departraent. 

 At the time it seemed that the two reports were for the 

 Department in tv/o different forms; consequently, the;? are 

 hoth called "first annual reports ". Strictly as i have 

 tried to point out, neither title was correct because the 

 year 1918 was divided between the old aoard and the new 

 State Department and the year 1919 was occupied entirely 

 by the State Departraent before the reorganization law 

 tooj: effect at the beginning of the state year 1920. i 

 suggest that you mark the title page of the 1919 report 

 by changing first ' to "second". 



Hereafter the annual reports of all departments will 

 be designated by year alone and not by number and year as 

 heretofore, that is, the report of this Department for 1920 

 will be entitled "Annual .report of the Department of Agri- 

 culture for the year 1920" and will not be otherwise des- 

 ignated, the Supervisor of Administration having ruled that 

 the numbering of annual reports is superfluous and mis- 

 leading, it has also been arranged that the year of pub- 

 lication shall not appear on the covers of any reports, but 

 only the year which the report is supposed to cover. Here- 

 tofore it has been the practice to put both on the cover 

 so that we have had, for example, reports for 1918 with the 

 numerals 1919 below. Hereafter only one figure will appear 

 on the cover of any report, if the Supervisor's ruling is 

 carried out, as it undoiibtedly will be. un this basis 

 there will be no third annual report of the Department and 

 no similar designation of any report by any department or 

 institution. 



very truly yours. 



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DIRECTOR. 



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