314 AXXUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



No. 



1019. Straining Milk. 



1020. Sweet Potato Weevil and Its Control. 



1022. Laws Relating to Fur-Bearing Animals, 1918. 



1023. Machinery for Cutting Firewood. 



1024. Currants and Gooseberries. 



1025. Larger Corn Stalk-Borer. 



1026. Strawberry Culture, South Atlantie and Gulf Coast Regions. 



1027. Strawberry Culture, Western United States. 



1028. Strawberry Culture, Eastern United States. 



1029. Conserving Corn from Weevils in the Gulf Coast States. 



1030. Feeding Horses. 



1031. Fig Growing in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. 



1032. Operating a Cooperative Motor Truck Route. 



1033. Muscadine Grape Paste. 



1034. Growing Sugar Cane for Sirup. 



1035. Farm Tractor in the Dakotas. 



1036. Care and Repair of Farm Implements: No. 5, Grain Separators. 



1037. "White Ants" as Pests in the United States and Methods of Preventing Their 



Damage. 



1038. Striped Cucumber Beetle and Its Control. 



1040. Illustrated Poultry Prim.er. 



1041. Eel worm Disease of Wheat and Its Control. 



1042. Saving Man Labor in Sugar Beet Fields. 



1043. Strawberry Varieties in the United States. 



1044. The City Home Garden. 



1045. Laying out Fields for Tractor Plowing. 



1046. European Corn Borer: A Menace to the Country's Corn Crop. 

 1048. Rhodes Grass. 



1050. Handling and Loading Southern New Potatoes. 

 1053. Control of Cherry Leaf-Spot. 



EMERGENCY OUTSIDE PRINTING. 



For emergency printing to make more effective the campaign to 

 increase food production and to conserve the food supply, the depart- 

 ment had a special appropriation which included printing, the expend- 

 iture of which was placed under the direction of this division. This 

 was in addition to the regular printing fund. As during the ])re- 

 ceding year, this emergency appropriation was utilized for the 

 printing and distribution of various bulletins, leaflets, pamphlets, 

 circulars, posters, etc., requiring immediate dissemination. 



The expenditures for emergency printing supplied by private 

 printing houses aggregated $120,158.85. 



As heretofore, some of the Farmers' Bidletins were utilized in 

 the department's intensive campaign. There were 61 such bulle- 

 tins during the year, the editions of which aggregated 2,447,000 

 copies. Of emergency pamphlets, leaflets, and informational circu- 

 lars there were 59, and the number of copies issued was 7,295,500; 

 of circulars and folders there were 62, and the editions aggregated 

 6,309,000 copies; of posters, charts, maps, etc., there were 32, the 

 editions totaling 2,217,020 copies; of Department Bulletins there 

 were 3, and the copies issued 26,000; of miscellaneous labels, foniLs, 

 maps, etc., the editions aggregated 658,351. The grand total of 

 emergency publications, leaflets, circulars, etc., was 18,952,871 

 copies. 



The printed matter was distributed under the supervision of tbo 

 assistant in cliarge of distribution, largely through the department's 

 county and demonstration agents, and other official channels. A 



