HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 301 
worth. The increase in editorial work between last year and the year 
before was 30 per cent, and you will notice that I relieved the editorial 
force of one man at $1,400. It was too loaded with the cheaper class 
of men, and I did not have enough of the best. Now, I want to make 
it a little stronger in the upper story. 
The CHairman. Does the increase of salary always make things 
stronger ? 
Mr. Hitt. It does if you get the right men. 
The Cuatrman. We do not always get the right men. 
Mr. Hitz. I will get the right men. 
The Cuartrman. How has your editorial increased 30 per cent? 
Mr. Hii. It has increased by 6,000 printed pages of editorial mat- 
ter, and I want to say in calling for extra help I take this into account, 
that I have not had time to do two hours’ editorial work during busi- 
ness hours the last three years. Every single bit of editorial work I 
have had to do I have had to do at home and after hours; and the 
increase is something I can not control. 
The Cuarrman. What is causing the increase? 
Mr. Hitt. The increase in the development of the Department; the 
growth of the other bureaus and divisions. All this work finds its 
ultimate expression in publication. We issued the year before last, 
for instance, 750 publications; last year we issued 938 publications. 
The CuarrmaAn. You only have to do with bulletins? 
Mr. Hixx. All bulletins and books. The Yearbook is edited by us, 
you know—-everything that is issued by the Depertment, the Depart- 
ment order; it is issued by the Department itself. 
The Cuarrman. You do not have the soil publications? 
Mr. Hix. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. Do you publish this report of the operations of the 
Bureau of Soils? 
Mr. Hitt. It all passes through our hands. 
The Cuarrman. Did you edit that [indicating]? 
Mr. Hitz. Yes, sir. 
The Cuarrman. Do you have anything to do with the maps? 
Mr. Hrxu. I have a good deal to do with them—do my best to sup- 
press the number of illustrations and number of maps. 
Mr. Scorr. Can you give the committee the cost of this bulletin and 
accompanying maps [indicating soil bulletin and maps]? 
Mr Hirt. I think they will cost about $37,000 or $38,000 for the 
complete report—two volumes we call it. 
Mr. Scott. Is that cost paid—— 
Mr. Hitt. That is paid by special appropriation of the Printing 
Committee. Congress appropriates for the printing of our Depart- 
ment, aside from the sum that is disbursed through myself, the 
$300,000 for the Yearbook, and so many thousand dollars for the 
Bureau of Animal Industry reports, etc., and it amounts to over 
$400,000 a year that is expended by the Public Printer under the order 
of Congress for publications of our Department irrespective of what 
is done over my signature. ; 
The CuarrMan. That is practically a half million dollars spent in 
dissemination of the knowledge gathered by the Department of 
Agriculture. 
Mr. Hit. Yes, sir; outside of the $300,000 for the Yearbook. 
The CuarrmaNn. In addition to the other expenses of the Department? 
