HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 815 
capacity, in your department of investigation, bound to furnish arti- 
cles when they are asked to do so in the line of their work without 
extra charge? 
Mr. Hinz. Certainly. Most of our farmers’ bulletins are written 
by employees of the Department who get no extra remuneration. It 
is rare that we have an article in our Yearbook that is not written by 
one of our men. It has happened very seldom, and they get no extra 
remuneration. 
Mr. Bowie. I want to ask you one question. You stated once or 
twice this morning, and I have heard it frequently before, that the 
Department had many more requisitions for Yearbooks than it had? 
Mr. Hitt. Three times as many as we have. 
Mr. Bow1zr. Why can not that be corrected by increasing the 
Department quota threefold? What is the use of printing it without 
furnishing it to everybody that wants them? And just fill out those - 
that ask for it in your list of correspondents—your regular list—and 
then stop. 
Mr. Hitn. We practically use that entirely as a sort of remunera- 
tion for correspondents and collaborators who work for the Depart- 
ment for nothing, and one of the few things we can do toward keeping 
them ready to help us, is to give them some of our publications, espe- 
cially the Yearbooks. 
Mr. Lamp. You do not send that Yearbook to anybody but these? 
Mr. Hitu. No, sir; that is one reason we got into trouble with 
Members of Congress, because we have to state to them that our quota 
is exhausted, and they can only get one by upplying to your Senator 
or Representative. 
The CuarRMAN. You remember last year attention was called to 
what was considered a tendency to over illustrate? Some of the illus- 
trations we considered rather ridiculous. 
Mr. Hit. Yes, sir. 
The CuarrmMAN. Has there been any determined effort to curb that 
tendency ¢ 
Mr. Hitt. There has, most assuredly. I do not think you can 
show in twelve months a single example of serious overillustration, 
or one that would compare with three or four cases that were brought 
up here a year ago. 
The CHarrman. You can not show me another photograph of a hog- 
pen, can you? 
Mr. Hixu. I think not. 
The CHarrMan. That was one of the most ridiculous things I have 
ever seen, I think. One of these bulletins contained a photograph 
of a plank hogpen down in Georgia. A determined effort has been 
made, Mr. Hill? 
Mr. Huu. A determined effort—most assuredly. If you were to 
consult with the authorities, and showsympathy, they would denounce 
me. 
The Cuatrman. This volume here is pretty profusely illustrated 
[indicating]. 
Mr. Hitz. What one is that? 
The Cuarrman. Soils. 
Mr. Hix. For a volume of that kind I think there were between 
40 and 50, and there were 100 submitted. 
