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(e) The monthly list of puhlications always tells how to get the books pub- 

 lished in the month of its issue. There is no way to find out how to get older 

 publications, or whether any have been issued upon any subject, or whether or 

 where they can be had, if at all, except to write to the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and ask. 



(/■) Postage must be paid on all communications addressed to government 

 officials. 



The following is the official statement of the department in regard to its 

 publications : — 



NOTES REGARDING DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications of the United States Department of Agriculture are of 

 three classes: (1) Serial publications; (2) scientific and technical reports; and, 

 (3) popular bulletins. 



The first two classes are issued in limited editions and are not intended for 

 general distribution, being particularly designed for scientific students and for 

 libraries and institutions of learning. They are distributed free to persons 

 cooperating with or rendering the department some service. Sample copies 

 will be sent if requested, but miscellaneous applicants should apply to the 

 Superintendent of Documents, Union Building, Washington, D. C._, to whom 

 all publications not needed for official use, except circulars and bulletins printed 

 by law for free distribution, are turned over in accordance with the following 

 provision of the act providing for the public printing and binding and the 

 distribution of public documents, viz.: 



Section 67. All documents at present remaining in charge of the several Executive 

 Departments, bureaus, and offices of the government not required for official use, shall 

 be delivered to the Superintendent of Documents, and hereafter all public documents 

 accumulating in said departments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use shall 

 be annually turned over to the Superintendent of Documents for distribution or sale. 



The Farmers' Bulletins treat in a practical manner of subjects of particular 

 interest to fsvrmers, and are issued with a view to the widest possible circulation. 

 These bulletins and circulars of information are free, two-thirds of them being 

 set aside under the law for distribution through senators, representatives, and 

 delegates in Congress. Applications may be" addressed to the Secretary of 

 A"-riculture, stating both the number and tdlr. of the publication desired. 



" The department has no list t<J whom all publications are sent; the variety of 

 the subjects treated naturally restricts the distribution of most of them to the 

 sections of countrv to which they are especially suitable and to specialists. The 

 Monthly List of Publications, issued the first of each month, will be mailed to 

 all who apply for it. In it the titles of the publications are given, witha note 

 explanatory of the character of each, thus enabling the reader to make intelli- 

 gent application for such bulletins and reports as are certain to be of interest to 

 him. 



The department can not undertake to furnish complete sets of either Farmers' 

 Bulletins or other publications. 



For the piiblications of the Weather Bureau, requests and remittances should 

 be directed to the Chief of that bureau. 



For publications mentioned in the Monthhi List preceding, to irhich a price 

 is attcwhcd (with the exception of those issued by the Weather Bureau), appli- 

 cation must be made to the Superintendent of Documents, Union Building, 

 Washington, D. C. , accompanied by the price thereof as fixed by him in accord- 

 dance with the provisions of sections 61 and 67 of the act providing for the 

 public printing and binding, and the distribution of public documents, approved 

 .January 12. 1895, and all" remittances should be made to him and not to the 

 Department of Agriculture; such remittances should be made by postal money 

 order and not by private check or stamps. 



