272 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



faithful and deserving employees every year have to be furloughed 

 for certain periods of time, causing much individual suffering, as well 

 as working a very great demoralization to the force, to the great dis- 

 advantage of the work in the document section. 



Of the appeals made to Congress for aid in publishing particular 

 reports during the past year, the majority were successful, thanks to 

 the cordial interest and energy of the honorable chairmen of the 

 House and Senate Committees on Printing; but every year it happens 

 that, unavoidably, especially during a short session, some of these 

 special requests for printing, which are never made except in the most 

 urgent cases, fail to receive favorable action, with most unfortunate 

 results. 



The close of the past fiscal year found us with over a score of bulle- 

 tins in manuscript which had been withheld from publication for 

 want of funds to print. While these were pushed through as rapidly 

 as possible upon the new appropriation becoming available, the delay 

 in their appearance is in every case regrettable and in many cases 

 seriously detrimental to the objects these publications were designed 

 to serve. Another serious result of inadequate appropriations is to be 

 found in our inability to supply reprints when publications are 

 exhausted, even though the Superintendent of Documents reports 

 numerous applications received by him accompanied by cash to pay 

 for the same. The growth in the sale of public documents through 

 the Superintendent of Documents has during the past few years been 

 remarkable, and it seems most unfortunate that circumstances should 

 so often compel us to discourage it. Properly developed, this plan 

 seems to offer the only true solution of the great problem attending 

 the subject of equitable, judicious, and economical distribution of 

 public documents. 



NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS ISSUED. 



The total number of publications issued by the Department of Agri- 

 culture during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, was 606, of which 

 109 were publications of the Weather Bureau. With the editing and 

 printing of the Weather Bureau publications this Division has no con- 

 nection, and hence the number of publications issued under the super- 

 vision of the Department editor was 497. Of these, 263 were new, 

 aggregating 14,458 printed pages, and the others, 234, were reprints, 

 aggregating 8,818 printed pages. Of the reprints, 157 were Farmers' 

 Bulletins. A list in detail of the publications issued during the year 

 ended June 30, 1901, will be found in Appendix A. 



The following shows the classes of publications composing the total 

 606, arranged according to the funds to which they were respectively 

 charged : 



Number and classes of publications, fiscal year 100 1. 



Publications: 



Chargeable to regular fund 274 



Chargeable to divisional funds 86 



Chargeable to Farmers' Bulletin fund 171 



Printed as Executive documents _ _ 16 



Printed at Weather Bureau 109 



Total ..,...„„.., „ .-606 



