86 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
nish these to Congressmen for their own use; but it has been the feel- 
ing of the Secretary for some time that provision should be made for 
a local distribution of this matter directly by Congress, and last year 
a resolution was introduced asking for a change in the method of 
printing the reports and providing that 2,000 copies of these reprints 
should be furnished to each Representative in whose area the survey 
has been made, 500 copies to each Senator, and 1,000 for the use of the 
Department. That resolution failed of passage, but this year I notice 
that a similar resolution has been introduced by Representative Shep- 
herd, of Texas, and the matter, I suppose, is now before the Printing 
Committee. 
Mr. Bows. That would have to go before the Printing Committee 
and not before this committee. What expense would be involved in 
having that 2,000 extra copies for the use of the local Congressmen? 
What expense would be involved in that? 
Mr. Wuitney. We get 1,000 copies of this, and I think it cost us 
about $5,000 last year. 
Mr. Grarr. Five cents apiece? 
Mr. Wurtney. Yes. 
Mr. Bowrg. That would be $5 apiece if you got 1,000 and you paid 
$5,000 for it. 
Mr. Wurrney. This is for all the reports. 
Mr. Bowrz. What would the 2,000 cost? 
Mr. Wurrney. I think they cost with the maps about 10 cents apiece. 
I have not figured it up. 
Mr. Scorr. The maps are worth nothing without the reports to the 
average citizen. 
Mr. Wurrnery. The main cost is in the map, but the map is already 
put up. Itis just the extra cost of printing that would be involved. 
The Government Printer does not do the work of preparing the map. 
He does it by contract, and as soon as the edition is delivered to the 
Government Printer the contractors destroy their stone and all record 
of it is lost. : 
Mr. Bows. Is it not your opinion that the real way to make this 
information available and of advantage is through the distribution of 
these small bulletins to the parties located in the county? 
Mr. Wuirney. I think so, decidedly. 
The CHarrMan. Do you think an indiscriminate distribution amounts 
to much, Professor? 
Mr. Wuitney. Mr. Chairman, it is hard to say. We have just 
published a bulletin for which there has been a great demand. 
The Cuarrman. Where there is a great demand for it, where they 
ask for them, that is where the people want them. 
Mr. Lams. What is the bulletin you refer to? 
Mr. Wuirtyey. Bulletin 22. Mr. Chairman, I would say that nota 
copy of the field operations goes out except on request, aside from 
about 250 names of exchanges and to the libraries and experiment sta- 
tions. The great bulk of these go out on request. 
Mr. Wricur. Does your Department take any steps to bring it to 
people’s notice as you have these; and also in regard to the survey 
of soils? 
Mr. Wuityey. No, not in regard to soils. We have not done that 
at all. I have never asked at all for any interest to be shown in 
the matter of soil survey. It has always come up from outside and 
unsolicited. 
