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to check in the preparation of the forthcoming volume, namely, the 

 Yearbook for L9Q1. In the call for contributions from the several 

 Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices special emphasis has been laid upon 

 the necessity of furnishing shorter articles, and also upon your desire 

 that every chief should, if possible, be represented by a paper in the 

 Yearbook setting forth in a plain and interesting fashion the scope and 

 purpose of some branch of the work carried on under his supervision. 

 Another cause for the increase in size of this book is the growing 

 demand for a greater variety of information, sucli as is contained in 

 the Appendix. The readers of the Yearbook have become accus- 

 tomed to referring to the Appendix for a large amount of informa- 

 tion on a great variety of subjects, such as is not, it is believed, 

 brought together in any other publication ; and the fact that it is not 

 elsewhere available renders it extremely undesirable to so restrict 

 the limits of the Appendix as to eliminate important information 

 which can not be procured elsewhere. 



REQUISITIONS FOR PRINTING. 



The total number of requisitions for printing signed by the chief 

 of this Division was 2,746, of which 28 were subsequently canceled, 

 leaving 2,718. Of these, 626 were drawn upon the main office and 

 2,092 upon the branch office. The number of requisitions issued 

 yearly since 1898 is as follows: In 1898, 1,890; 1899, 2,342; 1900, 

 2,450; 1901, 2,746. The following statements show the number of 

 requisitions drawn upon the Government Printing Office for the sev- 

 eral Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices during the past fiscal year : 



MAIN OFFICE. 



Requisitions on the main office by Bureaus, Divisions, Offices, etc., 1901. 



Secretary's Office . _ . _ _ 4 



Accounts and Disbursements 44 



Agrostology 22 



Animal Industry .. 103 



Biological Survey .. . 17 



Botany 28 



Chemistry. 26 



Entomology.. 32 



Office of Experiment Stations 133 



Foreign Markets . . 14 



Forestry 27 



Gardens and Grounds 1 



Library 21 



Plant Industry . . 1 



Pomology 11 



Publications 31 



Public Road Inquiries .. . . . 12 



Soils 23 



Statistics 29 



Vegetable Physiology and Pathology 24 



Weather Bureau 4 



Miscellaneous 19 



Total 626 



BRANCH OFFICE. 



The branch printing office continues to gain in usefulness in spite 

 of the very discouraging conditions under which the work has to be 



