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which $30,000,000 worth was farm produce. 

 Of this great increase in the growth of our 

 agricultural exports to that quarter of the 

 globe, amounting to something over $20,- 

 000,000, $11,500,000 consisted of cotton, 

 and $3,400,000 of wheat flour. 



During the past fiscal year Cuba, Porto 

 Eico, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philip- 

 pines furnished a market for $45,000,000 

 worth of our domestic products. Five years 

 ago these islands took but $13,000,000 worth. 

 During the fiscal year 1900 we sold to these 

 islands $20,000,000 worth .of farm pi'oduce, 

 an increase of $13,700,000 over 1896. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



Efibrts in this Division have been mainly 

 directed to strengthening and improving 

 the Department's several crop-reporting 

 agencies. Two statistical field agents now 

 devote their entire time to systematic visi- 

 tation of the principal centers of agricul- 

 tural industry. Much good is derived from 

 their efforts. At the same time it is grati- 

 fying to state that the reports from the 

 Department's regular correspondents have 

 never before been so numerous, complete 

 and prompt. 



DIVISION OP PUBLICATIONS. 



The Secretary notes with gratification 

 that appreciation of tlie Department's work, 

 as manifested in the demand for its publi- 

 cations, is every year more evident ; so that 

 with an annual output exceeding in the ag- 

 gregate 7,000,000 copies, refusals to appli- 

 cants are in many cases imperative. The 

 number of new publications issued during 

 the fiscal year was 320, against 297 for 

 1899 ; of reprints there were but 148 in 

 1900, against 306 in 1899 ; of Farmers' Bul- 

 letins 108 were issued, aggregating 2,360,- 

 000 copies. Even this enormous number 

 fails to meet the requirements of Congress, 

 which in this year's appropriations has 

 provided for a still larger issue, and has 



reserved for the use of Senators, Represent, 

 atives and Delegates four-fifths of the num- 

 ber printed, in lieu of two-thirds, as here- 

 tofore. The calls upon this Division from 

 all parts of the country for publications, 

 involved replies to 300,000' separate com- 

 munications during the year, besides which 

 more than 3,300,000 names and addresses 

 had to be written in the distribution of doc- 

 uments. 



THE LIBRABY. 



Five thousand volumes have been added 

 to the Library during the j'ear, and cards 

 have been issued to nearly 4,000 libraries, 

 containing entries of all articles in the 

 Yearbooks and Farmers' Bulletins issued 

 to date. 



ACCOUNTS AND DISBUESEMENTS. 



Appropriations for the Department for the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, amounted 

 to $3,006,022, an excess over 1899 of $176,- 

 320. In addition, the usual sum of $720,- 

 000 was provided for division among the 

 State agricultural stations. Expenditures 

 and liabilities incurred during the year 

 were $2,975,000. During the year $4,440 

 was paid for the rental of leased buildings 

 in Washington. 



PARIS EXPOSITION AWARDS. 



The final official list of the Paris Exposi- 

 tion awards has not yet reached the De- 

 partment, but preliminary reports supplied 

 by its representatives in Paris record about 

 500 awards to United States exhibitors in 

 agricultural, horticultural and food prod- 

 ucts. The United States was also gener- 

 ously considered in the forestry and tobacco 

 classes. 



AFFILIATION OF ALLIED LINES OF WORK. 



The Secretary lays particular stress upon 

 the necessity of adopting from this time 

 forward a policy of aggregation rather than 

 segregation in the development of the De- 

 partment work, so as to bring together the 



