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area each represents, they should be 

 highly appreciated. 



To encourage the purchase of these 

 folios for educational purposes, the Geo- 

 logical Survey has lately reduced the 

 wholesale price on folios. When pur- 

 chased separately, the folios of ordinary 

 size cost 25 cents each, those of greater 



of these folios, when regarded as text- 

 books, consider the New York city 

 folio. The retail price is 50 cents a 

 copy. It contains 17 pages of text, 13 

 pages of maps (each one of which would 

 cost 5 cents if purchased separately), 

 and 2 pages of plates. Other cities 

 covered by geologic folios are Washing- 



Stacking Alfalfa with a Derrick on a Western Farm 



From an interesting report on our great forage crops by A. S. Hitchcock, of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



length cost 50 cents each, and a few of 

 extraordinary size cost 75 cents each. 

 The Survey now offers 34 folios of the 

 ordinary size for $5.10, which makes 

 the price of each copy only 15 cents. 

 A corresponding reduction of 40 per 

 cent is made on the wholesale price of 

 the large folios. 



To show how reasonable is the price 



ton and Chicago. One folio (No. 50, 

 Holyoke) has been issued for the New 

 England area. The price of each of 

 these is 50 cents. 



Those desiring information as to the 

 areas now covered by the folios should 

 apply to the Director of the United 

 States Geological Survey, Washington, 

 D. C. 



