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44. Plant Industry Bureau. Publica- 51. Health and hygiene. Publications

tions on seed selection, breeding,

and diseases of economic plants.

45. Public Roads Office. Publications

on experiments with road materials
and in road building.

46. Soils.

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47. Statistics Bureau, Agriculture De- 54. Political economy. Publications on

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the United States and diplomatic 57. Astronomical papers of the Naval relations with foreign countries.

Observatory.

The foregoing by no means embrace all the subjects treated in public documents. If you fail to see here what you want, send your inquiries to the Superintendent of Documents and they will be answered.

HOW TO ORDER FROM THE SPECIAL LISTS.

STATEMENT BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS.

The Superintendent of Documents is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge the distribution of which is not otherwise provided for.

DOCUMENTS CAN NOT BE SUPPLIED FREE TO INDIVIDUALS, NOR CAN THEY BE FORWARDED IN ADVANCE OF PAYMENT.

The accumulation of Government publications in this office amounts to several millions, of which more than a million are available as a sales stock, covering nearly every important department, bureau, and series. Many rare books are included, but under the law all must be sold "at cost," regardless of their age or scarcity. Of many of the most valuable works, but few copies remain.

In ordering, it should be borne in mind that most of the books have been in stock some time and are likely to be shopworn. In filling orders, however, the best copy available is sent.

This office possesses the most nearly complete collection of United States Government publications and employs several document experts in reference work. Information regarding public documents will gladly be supplied.

As the sales office for Government publications, we are anxious to inform the people how and where to secure documents they may desire.

Lists on various subjects will be issued from time to time FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION. No general price list of public documents is at present available, but lists on special subjects will be furnished on application.

No publications can be distributed free or exchanged.

HOW TO REMIT.

Remittances should be made to the SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., by postal money order, express order, or New York draft. If currency is sent, it will be at sender's risk.

TO FACILITATE THE PAYMENT OF THE COST OF DOCUMENTS, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WILL ACCEPT COUPONS ISSUED

BY HIM INSTEAD OF CASH. COUPONS OF THE VALUE OF 5 CENTS EACH ARE SOLD IN SETS OF 20 FOR $1.00. ADDRESS ORDER TO SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Postage stamps, coins defaced or worn smooth, foreign money, or uncertified checks positively will not be accepted.

No charge is made for postage on documents forwarded to points in the United States, Guam, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, or to Canada, Cuba, or Mexico. To other countries the regular rate of postage is charged, and remittances must cover such postage.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE.1

Under the new plan of publication work, adopted July 1, 1913, publications of the Department of Agriculture may be classified as follows:

1. Annual reports.-These consist of such as the Yearbook, the annual reports of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices, which, in connection with the Annual Report of the Secretary, constitute the volume entitled "Annual Reports, Department of Agriculture.' In addition to these, annual reports of bureau operations are prepared, under the law, by the Weather Bureau, the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Bureau of Soils, and the Office of Experiment Stations. Of these, the Yearbook is perhaps the most popular. It is usually illustrated with full-page half-tone and colored illustrations, and contains much material that might be useful in teaching a variety of subjects. Of this volume 500,000 copies are printed annually, 470,000 being reserved for distribution by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, from whom copies can probably be secured by teachers desiring the volumes for their school libraries.

2. The departmental series of bulletins.-These will contain the popular and semi-technical papers that have heretofore been published in the bulletin or circular series of the various bureaus, divisions, and offices. The bureau series have been discontinued. These bulletins are designed to describe in popular form the results of investigations by the department, each bulletin being confined to a particular subject; the size will vary from 4 to 60 pages. The bulletins will be for free distribution as long as the supply lasts; after that applicants will be referred to the Superintendent of Documents, who has them for sale under the law of January 12, 1895.

3. Journal of Research.-The scientific and technical matter heretofore published in the bureau bulletins and circulars will hereafter appear in the Journal of Research, which will be distributed free only to agricultural colleges, technical schools, experiment stations,

1 Statement furnished by Mr. Joseph A. Arnold, Chief of Division of Publications, Department of Agriculture.

libraries of large universities, Government depositories, and to such institutions as make suitable exchanges with the department. This journal is not designed for free popular distribution, but will be for sale by the Superintendent of Documents at an annual price to be affixed by him.

4. Periodicals.-These will comprise the Experiment Station Record, the Monthly Weather Review, and the North American. Fauna. These publications are issued in rather limited editions because they are not suitable for popular distribution.

5. Farmers' Bulletins.-This is the most popular series of publications of the department, and the pamphlets are designed for the widest possible distribution. They vary in size from 4 to 32 pages, deal with a particular subject, and give positive directions for doing things. The demand for them is so great that the department can not supply them in sufficient quantity for class work; therefore, teachers are referred to their Senators or Representatives in Congress, each of whom has an allotment of the publications to his credit for distribution to his constituents. A limited number of copies can sometimes be supplied by the department.

There is no list of persons who receive all of the publications issued, as this would be a very wasteful and unsatisfactory method of distribution. Instead, the Monthly List of Publications is issued about the first of each month and is sent regularly to all who ask to receive it. From this list publications can be ordered by proper title and number, either from the free or sales list. Only requests for publications that are for free distribution should be addressed to the Department of Agriculture.

In case teachers desire special advice or suggestions with reference to the publications for class use they may write direct to the Office of Experiment Stations, which is specifically charged with carrying on the farm educational work of the department.

Teachers of correlated subjects in the same school may economize not only in the number of bulletins used, but also in their own and their pupils' work, by comparing lists before ordering publications. A limited number of bulletins carefully studied by the teacher or the class, or assigned to certain members for individual reports, are of much greater service than a hundred forgotten on the shelves at home or in the school library.

SPECIAL HELPS TO THE TEACHER, OTHER THAN PUBLICATIONS.

The Office of the Secretary, Interior Department, has a collection of 83 photographs of national parks, in color, of a size to cover a 250-foot wall space in single tier, which is lent to libraries for exhibition purposes on payment of transportation charges. An accompanying catalogue contains brief quotations describing most of the pictures.

The Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, has several special sets of colored lantern slides for educational use, each set accompanied by a syllabus for a lecture. The subjects thus covered are: General forestry, conservation of the forests, the work of the Forest Service, the care and protection of shade trees, nature study and forestry, botany and forestry, manual training and forestry, geography and forestry, agriculture and forestry. The first four lectures are of general interest; the last five are designed for special use in schools. The Forest Service also has a special collection of 44 large mounted photographs on "The Forests of the United States, Their Use and Preservation," prepared as a traveling exhibit to be lent to schools, libraries, and other educational institutions. These photographs are arranged in 11 series, of 4 pictures each. These series, with descriptions, form illustrated "stories" on special features of forest work and forest conditions. Each series is mounted on a strip of green denim cloth, with eyelets in the upper corners, for hanging. The whole exhibit covers a wall space 44 feet high and about 14 feet long. This exhibit, like the lecture syllabuses and slides already noted, is loaned for short periods on condition that the borrower agree to pay express charges and to forward the pictures promptly at the direction of the Forest Service.

Mounted or unmounted prints may also be purchased from the Forest Service for educational use at prices according to the sizes. An outline of subjects illustrated and a price list will be furnished on request.

The Office of Experiment Stations, Department of Agriculture, has prepared a series of 14 lecture syllabuses, each lecture being illustrated with from 45 to 50 lantern slides, on the following subjects: The care of milk; potato diseases and their treatment; acid soils; profitable cattle feeding; silage and silo construction for the South; essentials for successful field experimentation; roads and road building; farm architecture; tobacco growing; production and marketing of eggs and fowls; wheat culture; farm homes; peanuts, their cultivation and uses; and farm home grounds. These lectures are all practical in treatment, being especially designed for farmers' institute uses. They are sent to teachers, accompanied with the lantern. slides, on payment of transportation charges.

The Office of Experiment Stations is also preparing a series of lectures dealing especially with pedagogic aspects of instruction in agriculture. The school garden and home improvement are two collateral subjects to be taken up in this series. Each lecture syllabus

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will be illustrated with about 60 lantern slides. This series will be lent on the same terms as the other.

The Isthmian Canal Commission, War Department, has several hundred slides showing the progress of construction on the Panama Canal, selections from which will be lent on payment of transportation. List of abbreviations used in this bulletin.

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