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, IDOL 



TOTAL 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 Survev 378. 07 



Division of Botany *. f 497.00 



Division of Entomology I 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 question of an equitable distribution of publications of the 

 Department becomes more and more urgent and difficult every year. 

 The Superintendent of Documents, to whom, under the law, all the 

 publications of this Department should be turned over yearly, except 

 such as are required for official use, not only reports a continued 

 increase of demand, but deplores the fact that we are unable to supply 

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



The desirability of cooperating with this officer in the sale of our 

 publications has been frequently dwelt upon, and it is emphasized 

 every year by the utter inadequacy of the funds at our disposal for 

 printing and thus supplying the demands made upon us. Every year 

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

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

 inqmssible. It will be a great help in the way of keeping the Superin- 

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

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

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



