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Excerpt from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1902 The Yearbook for 1902 is slightly more bulky than its predecessors. It is satisfactory to note, however, that this result is due not to an increase in the length of the articles contributed but to continued expansion in the Department work - the multiplication of the branches of work which should be represented in the pages of the Yearbook. As a matter of fact, the 37 articles which form the bulk of the volume will average fewer pages than those in any former Yearbook. These take up 534 pages, being an average of a little over 14: pages to an article. The corresponding portion of the Yearbook for 1901 aggre gated 492 pages, containing 33 articles, averaging 15 pages; while the corresponding figures for the Yearbooks for 1900 and 1899 were, respectively, 552 pages, 31 articles, averaging nearly 18 pages, and 593 pages, 26 articles, averaging nearly 23 pages. It has been impossible in the general effort at reduction to apply it equally to the first part of the Yearbook, which, in compliance with the law requiring the inclusion in each Yearbook of a general report of the operations of the Department, consists of the Secretary's Annual Report. This record unavoidably expands in some proportion to the continued growth of the Department and the extension of its work along numerous new lines. The number of plates (87) is the same as in 1900 and slightly less than in 1901, though in view of the increase in the number of articles the reduction is proportionately greater than the actual number shows. In accordance with the general policy Of reduction, the illustrations have been carefully restricted to such as are deemed necessary to increase the usefulness of the work and to assist the reader to a full and satisfactory understanding of the text. 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.