284 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



Furnishing duplicates of our illustrations to various correspondents 

 for reproduction in their publications takes up considerable time of 

 our employees. Altogether, 1,457 duplicates were made by us upon 

 the requests of correspondents, the cost thereof being defrayed by 

 the applicants. 



A statement in detail of the work of the section of illustrations 

 follows : 



Work of the section of illustrations, 1901. 



Number. 

 Drawings, retouching photographs, photographing on wood, etc., made by 



the artists in the Division of Publications _ 2, 401 



Wood engravings 23 



Requests for duplicate electrotypes 177 



Duplicate electrotypes furnished to correspondents on request 1, 457 



Requisitions and authorizations . _ 141 



Illustrations printed or published (not including reprints) 2, 095 



THE DOCUMENT SECTION. 



During the fiscal }^ear ended June 30, 1901, Farmers' Bulletins to the 

 number of 3,359,881 were received from the Government Printer, and 

 3,016,353 were distributed, more than two-thirds of these being mailed 

 at the request of Senators, Representatives, and Delegates. Of mis- 

 cellaneous publications other than Farmers' Bulletins, 3,205,591 copies 

 were received from the Public Printer, and 3,137,071 were distributed 

 to applicants for the same, making a total of 6,154,024 different doc- 

 uments mailed from the document section. 



The preparing of addresses, answering of correspondence, and hand- 

 ling of this number of publications entailed upon the document sec- 

 tion an amount of clerical and semiclerical work relatively as great as 

 the manual labor involved in wrapping the documents for mailing. 

 Each request for publications and for information concerning publi- 

 cations received in the document section receives careful attention 

 and a prompt reply. In the? furtherance of this work, 2,869 letters 

 were prepared for the Secretary's signature, and 8,302 were written 

 for the signature of the Editor-in Chief. In addition to this, 228,253 

 blank forms, postal cards, and notification slips, bearing the printed 

 signature of the Editor, were mailed to correspondents, and over 

 176,000 orders were written, filled, entered, and filed for future refer- 

 ence; 3,238,288 franks or envelopes were addressed; and over 60,000 

 cards were used in indexing the names of the recipients of the more 

 valuable publications. 



EXPENDITURES FROM SPECIAL FUND OF THE DIVISION. 



The following statement shows the total expenditures during the 

 year from the special appropriation for this Division, including the 

 amounts for preparation and printing of Farmers' Bulletins, for art- 

 ists and preparation of illustrations, for artists' supplies, and for labor 

 and materials in distribution of documents: 



Pay of artists and preparation of illustrations $5, 575. 00 



Labor in distribution of documents 41,186.57 



Materials for document section 5, 115. 38 



Artists' supplies 717.04 



Illustrations 63.84 



Manuscript for publication 300. 00 



Total 52,957.83 



