24 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ing, and shall be of the number following in addition to the usual 

 number : 



The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter 

 be submitted and printed in two parts, as follows: Part one, which 

 shall contain purely business and executive matter which it is neces- 

 sary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress ; part 

 two, which shall contain such reports from the different bureaus and 

 divisions, and such papers prepared by their special agents, accom- 

 panied by suitable illustrations as shall, in the opinion of the Secre- 

 tary, be specially suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the 

 country, and to include a general report of the operations of the 

 Department for their information. There shall be printed of part 

 one, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the 

 House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture ; 

 and of part two, one hundred and ten thousand coj)ies for the use of 

 the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of 

 the House of Representatives, and thirt}^ thousand copies for the use 

 of the Department of Agriculture, the illustrations for the same to 

 be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accord- 

 ance with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, said illus- 

 trations to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture; 

 and the title of each of the said parts shall be such as to show that 

 such part is complete in itself : * * * 



Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 73, 28.Stot. 612. 



These are provisions of "An act providing for the public printing and 

 binding and the distribution of public documents," cited above. 



A provision of this section, authorizing the printing and binding of 

 extra copies of the Annual Report of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, 

 is set forth on p. 37, post, under " Weather Bureau," and a similar pro- 

 vision of the same section relating to the Report of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, is set forth on p. 71, post, under " Bureau of Animal Industry." 



The preparation and printing of the Annual Report of the Director of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations is authorized by Res. April 27, 1904, 

 No. 29, set forth on p. 253, post, under " Office of Experiment Stations." 



Appropriations for printing and binding for the Department of Agri- 

 culture, including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, are 

 made in the annual sundry civil appropriation acts. The provision of 

 the act for the H.scal year 1913, act August 24, 1912, c. 355, is set forth 

 on p. 229, post, under " Division of Publications." 



Number of copies of monthly crop report, and other reports and bulletins of 

 Department of Agriculture, and maps, charts, bulletins, and minor reports 

 of Weather Bureau. 



* * * The Secretary of Agriculture may print such number of 

 copies of the monthly crop report, and of other reports and bulletins 

 containing not to exceed one hundred octavo pages, as he shall deem 

 requisite; and this provision shall apply to the maps, charts, bulletins, 

 and minor reports of the Weather Bureau, which shall be printed in 

 such numbers as the Secretary of Agriculture may deeni for the best 

 interests of the Government: * * * 



Act January 12, 1895. c. 23, s. 89, 28 Stat. 622. 



This is a proviso of the act citeil above. Portions of said section 

 hero omitted are applicable to all the executive departments, and are set 

 forth on {). 365, post, under " Public Printing." 



Provisions relating to the preparation, contents, etc., of the monthly 

 crop reports, contained in act March 4, 1909, c. 301, are set forth on p. 232, 

 post, under " Bureau of Statistics." 



