818 Ai!TNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Indexes were made as usual for the Yearbook, for the Annual 

 Keport of the Department of Agriculture, for committee hearings, 

 and for the List of Workers in Subjects Pertaining to Agriculture 

 and Home Economics. 



The preparation of a cumulated index for the first 1,000 Farmers' 

 Bulletins has been taken up and is being pushed vigorously, with 

 the expectation that it will be in the printer's hands within a few 

 weeks. The list of Publications Available for Distribution, which 

 is revised each year, also is about ready for the entries of publications 

 issued in June, 1919, and it is hoped to have the revision ready 

 within 10 days after the Farmers' Bulletin index is ready. 



The increase of work here with the rapid growth of the department 

 and increase of its publications emphasizes the recommendation 

 repeated annually for several years that another indexer be added 

 to the ofiice force. This will be necessary if the indexing deemed 

 to be absolutely current and essential is to be kept nearly up to 

 date. Two indexers and a compiler added to the force would make 

 it possible to take up indexing long held in abeyance. 



The demand for lists of references from the indexes in the Indexing 

 Section has increased notably in the year; but it is still true that it 

 is not sufficiently known throughout the department that these 

 indexes exist. It would be desirable to adopt some plan which would 

 put the information offered by the indexes more certainly and 

 attractively at the disposal of all department officials. 



The work of this section in the fiscal year included writing 45,000 

 index cards; making 100,000 copies of the same; alphabetizing; 

 filing a part of the cards; and distributing another part toother 

 offices that use them. 



The indexing work of this section for the fiscal year involved the 

 indexing of 27,640 pages of department publications, and 11,976 pages 

 of the Congressional Record. 



The Indexing Section was under the immediate supervision of 

 Mr. C. H. Greathouse. 



ILLUSTRATION SECTION. 



The drawings prepared by the draftsmen during the year numbered 

 1,760, compared with 2,483 during the preceding year. 



Though the number of drawings made shows a falling off, the actual 

 amount and quality of the work produced was greater, as the efforts 

 of the artist-draftsmen were concentrated on the designing of special 

 cover pages to enhance the attractiveness of publications, and the 

 creation of colored posters used in special educational campaigns. 

 As a result, requests for hundreds of simpler drawings had to be can- 

 celed owing to the limited force of draftsmen. 



The growth of the photographic work shown in last year's report 

 has continued, with no increase of force, the total output showing 

 181,006 pieces as against 172,066 in the preceding year. 



One hundred and fifty-six requests for photographs were received 

 from persons outside the department, for which a total of S621.62 

 was collected and turned over to the Division of Accounts and Dis- 

 bursements. 



Eighty-eight requests were received for duplicates of cuts used in 

 llustrating the department's publications and 818 cuts were taken 

 'rom the files and sent to electro typers, who furnished duplicates 

 fo the applicants at their expense, the original cuts being afterwards 

 returned to the files 



