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Excerpt from First Biennial Report of the Department of Statistics for 1885-6, Vol. 7 The change in the law by the last Legislature, requiring bi ennial instead of annual reports, has not lessened in any degree the labor of the Bureau, since it has been necessary to collect and compile the statistics for each of the annual periods for which this report is made. As the saving to the State is, there fore, only in the matter of printing and binding, it becomes a question whether the inconvenience arising from the publica tion, but once in two years, of the matters in which so many are interested, does not outweigh the pittance saved to the State, and whether a return to the system of annual reports would not be advantageous to all concerned. The value of ag ricultural and other statistics depends as much upon their prompt publication as upon their correct compilation, and, in this age, such statistics, to prove of practical utility, should be published at least annually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.