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the Bureau of Farm Management of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture had his headquarters with us. 



Miss Mary Manning resigned as stenographer on August 17, 

 1918, and Miss Goldie Mendelsohn was appointed in her place. 

 Miss Jennie Todd resigned on July 1, 1918, and Miss Ethel E. 

 Scanlan was appointed in her place. 



Library. 



The library privileges of the Department have been taken 

 advantage of to a greater extent than ever before, there having 

 been 105 new applicants. In all, 459 books were lent during 

 the year, those on poultry, vegetable growing, fertilizers, sheep 

 and fruit growing having had the greatest demand. 



Because of a ruling of the government that periodicals were 

 not to be sent gratis, it was necessary to expend $57.95 for 

 subscriptions to periodicals which heretofore had been received 

 without cost. In addition to this expenditure, $172.21 was 

 paid out for new books and binding. 



Extracts from the Trespass Law's. 

 Five thousand cloth posters entitled "Extracts from the 

 Trespass Laws" were printed at a cost of $433.96, but this 

 number was not nearly large enough to meet the demand, and 

 an additional supply of 3,000 paper posters were printed at a 

 cost of $15.13. Of the cloth posters there were a number of 

 requests for more than the five copies allowed by law, and as 

 all over this number are sold at 6 cents each, $6.54 was realized. 



Legislation for 1918. 

 A number of important agricultural acts were passed by the 

 Legislature of 1918. For convenience these may be grouped 

 into two classes: (1) emergency war legislation and (2) legis- 

 lation of permanent importance. Of the emergency acts, 

 perhaps the most important was that providing an appropria- 

 tion of $100,000 for the purchase of farm machinery by the 

 Board of Agriculture. Other important emergency legislation 

 were the acts providing appropriations of $300,000 for pro- 

 moting and stimulating the production and conservation of 



