YEARBOOK OF THE UNITED STATES 1917 WASHINGTON, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1918 [CHAPTER 23, STAT. L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents.] Section 73, paragraph 2: The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter be submitted and printed in two parts, as follows: Part One, which shall contain purely business and executive matter which it is necessary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress; Part Two, which shall contain such reports from the different Bureaus and Divisions, and such papers prepared by their special agents, accompanied by suitable illustrations, as shall, in the opinion of the Secretary, be specially suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the country, and to include a general report of the operations of the Department for their information. There shall be printed of Part One, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; and of Part Two, one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and thirty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture, the illustrations for the same to be executed under the supervision of the Public Printer, in accordance with directions of the Joint Committee on Printing, said illustrations to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture; and the title of each of the said parts shall be such as to show that such part is complete in itself. 421 A35 1917 ORGANIZATION OF U. S. DEPARTMENT OF Secretary of Agriculture, DAVID FRANKLIN HOUSTON. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, CARL VROOMAN. 1 Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, RAYMOND A. PEARSON.1 Assistant to the Secretary, ALONZO E. TAYLOR. Solicitor, WILLIAM MARTIN WILLIAMS. Attorney in Charge of Forest Appeals, THOMAS G. SHEARMAN. Appointment Clerk, IRVING W. Pew. Expert on Exhibits, F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER. Chief Editor, EDWY B. REID. Office of Information, G. W. WHARTON, Chief. Division of Publications, Jos. A. ARNOLD, Chief. Weather Bureau, CHARLES F. MARVIN, Chief. Bureau of Animal Industry, JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief. Bureau of Plant Industry, WM. A. TAYLOR, Plant Physiologist and Forest Service, HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester and Chief. Bureau of Entomology, L. O. HOWARD, Entomologist and Chief. Bureau of Chemistry, CARL L. ALSBERG, Chemist and Chief. Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Bureau of Markets, CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief. Librarian, CLARIBEL R. BARNETT. Insecticide and Fungicide Board, J. K. HAYWOOD, Chairman. Federal Horticultural Board, C. L. MARLATT, Chairman. 1 These positions were created by the food production act for the period of the war. 49185 3 |