Of the 4,717 books borrowed from libraries in the city during the year, 3,567 were borrowed from the Library of Congress, 878 from the Surgeon General's library, 124 from the National Museum and Smithsonian Institution, 49 from the Geological Survey, 25 from the Patent Office, 24 from the Bureau of Education, and the remaining 50 from 10 other Government libraries. APPENDIX 6. Accessions to the Library for the fiscal years 1914 to 1918. The number of current periodicals received, arranged by classes, is shown in the following table: APPENDIX 10. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. A comparison of the receipts and expenditures of the Library for the last five years is given in the following table: Financial statement, fiscal years 1914 to 1918. From the total, $10,491.60, spent for binding in the past year, $7,684.69 was spent for regular binding and $2,806.91 for binders. From the $1,576.78 spent for printing, $50.08 was spent for the printing of the annual report of the Librarian for 1917, $251.70 for forms, and $1,275 for the cards printed, through the Library of Congress, for the publications of the department and for the accessions. APPENDIX 11. A. L. A. FORM FOR LIBRARY STATISTICS.1 Annual report for year ended June 30, 1918. Name of library, U. S. Department of Agriculture Library. Terms of use, free for lending to department employees, free for general reference. Total number of agencies, 14 (consisting of main Library and 13 branches). 1 Libraries which print their annual reports are requested by the American Library Association to include therein their statistics presented according to a form compiled by the American Library Association Committee on Library Administration, as this facilitates comparison. The statistics of the Library are given above in the American Library Association form in so far as the records kept by the Library make it possible. Number of days open during year, 306. Hours open each week for lending, 45 for nine months, 41 during three summer months. Hours open each week for reading, 45 for nine months, 41 during three summer months. Total number of staff, 35 in main Library, 44 in branches. Number of volumes added during year by purchase, 1,510. Number of volumes added during year by gift and exchange, 676. Number of volumes added during year by binding material not otherwise counted, 949. Number of volumes withdrawn during year, 249. Number of pamphlets added during year, 1,291. Number of serials added during year, 3,904. Number of maps and charts added during year, 63. Total number of books and pamphlets, 146,746. Total recorded use, 171,796. Number of interlibrary loans, 988. Total number of registered borrowers, 2,210. Number of periodicals currently received, 2,433 titles, 3,428 copies. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, STATES RELATIONS SERVICE, Washington, D. C., September 30, 1918. SIR: I have the honor to present herewith the report of the States Relations Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. Respectfully, A. C. TRUE, Director. INTRODUCTION. The States Relations Service represents the Secretary of Agriculture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations under the acts of Congress granting funds to these institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, and home economics, and the maintenance of agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam. The organization of the service includes the following offices: (1) The Office of the Director, which deals with the general business and administration of the service and the work relating to agricultural instruction and farmers' institutes; (2) the Office of Experiment Stations; (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, including the farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the cooperative extension work in 15 Southern States; (4) the Office of Extension Work in the North and West, including the farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the cooperative extension work in 33 Northern and Western States; and (5) the Office of Home Economics, including investigations relative to foods, clothing, and household equipment and management. During the past year the service also had charge of the work authorized by Congress in the item in the food-production act of August 10, 1917, providing $4,348,400 "for increasing food production and eliminating waste and promoting conservation of food by educational and demonstrational methods through county, district, and urban agents and others." This war-emergency fund was used through the two extension offices for the expansion of those features |