duced by each of the several processes. Subsidiary tabulations are included, showing the number of pulp mills, the cost of the pulpwood consumed, etc., the amount of wood pulp produced, by States and by processes, and its value. Secondary statistics are also included showing the annual imports and exports of wood pulp and of paper. For purposes of comparison, all tables include corresponding figures for a number of previous years. Wood Consumption in Secondary Wood-Using Industries. During the period from 1909 to 1913, the Forest Service conducted an inquiry into the consumption of wood in secondary wood-using industries. Information was gathered for the entire country, State by State, a period of 12 months being taken as the basis of the statistics for each State. In certain cases the work was done in cooperation with the State government, and in 24 States the results of the survey were published by the State government. For certain other States, the results were published only in trade journals. The statistical results of this survey were summarized by the Forest Service in a bulletin issued early in 1918, entitled Lumber Used in the Manufacture of Wooden Products. A table included in this publication shows the total quantity of each kind of wood used annually in the United States in the manufacture of wooden products of various kinds. Although this inquiry has not been repeated for the United States as a whole, the Forest Service cooperated with the States of New York and North Carolina in gathering similar data for the year 1919. Wood Preservation. Each year since 1910 the Forest Service, in cooperation with the American Wood Preservers' Association, has collected statistics relating to the preservation of wood. The report presenting the results of this inquiry, consisting of about 20 octavo pages, is printed at the expense of the Association as a part of its Annual Proceedings. It is based upon schedules sent annually by the Forest Service to about 125 wood-treating plants in the United States, and contains statistical tables and statements showing the quantities of materials (domestic creosote, imported creosote, zinc chloride, etc.) consumed in wood preservation, and the quantities of the various kinds of wood and material (hewed and sawn cross-ties, piling, poles, wood blocks, construction timber, cross arms, etc.) treated with different preservatives. The schedules submitted by the reporting plants show also the average prices paid for the preservatives used. Lumber Prices. The Forest Service compiles average monthly prices of various commercial woods for the purpose of evaluating standing timber placed on sale in National forests, and for the further purpose of maintaining a continuous record of lumber prices for use in special investigations. The information is compiled from the printed reports of six private lumber price bureaus. It is not published by the Forest Service. The Forest Service has also found it necessary to maintain a partial record of prices received in private sales of stumpage. National Forests. The annual report of the Forester contains a number of statistical statements relating to various aspects of the administration of the National forests. These statements, which are compiled from the reports prepared by the several district foresters from original data contained in schedules submitted by the forest supervisors, relate to forest fires, timber, sales, planting and sowing, grazing leases, water-power sites and transmission rights-of-way, road and trail construction, protection of forested watersheds from fire, etc. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS. * * The Agricultural Appropriation Act of March 3, 1893, authorized the Secretary of Agriculture" to make inquiries in regard to the systems of road management throughout the United States, to make investigations in regard to the best method of road-making, to prepare publications on this subject suitable for distribution, and to assist the agricultural college and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject." Under this Act an "Office of Road Inquiry" was established. The duties of the Office have been increased from time to time, and its name changed by annual appropriations acts successively to "Office of Public Road Inquiries,” "Office of Public Roads," and "Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering," and, by the Act of July 24, 1919, to "Bureau of Public Roads," its present designation. The statistics compiled by this Bureau are limited exclusively to those necessary to the proper execution and administration of the work with which the Bureau is charged. For the most part they appear in a monthly publication issued by the Bureau, entitled Public Roads. A census of public roads is taken every five years, the results being published in a series of special bulletins. Public Roads. The monthly publication Public Roads has a circulation of about 500 copies. It is sent without charge to State and county highway officials, and to instructors in highway engineering at universities and colleges. Exchange relations are maintained with engineering and other magazines. The principal statistical statements published in Public Roads are annual summaries relating to: (1) motorvehicle registrations and revenues; and (2) State highway expenditures and mileage. These statements appear during the early part of the calendar year following that to which they pertain. MOTOR-VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS AND REVENUES. Three tables are included under this heading, the figures being furnished by State highway commissioners or other State officials having jurisdiction of the matters reported upon. The first table, entitled Motor-vehicle registrations, licenses, and revenues, 19-, shows, by States, the number of automobiles, motor trucks and commercial vehicles, and motor cycles registered; the number of reregistrations or transfers; the number of licenses issued to owners and chauffeurs and to manufacturers and dealers; the total gross motor-vehicle registration and license revenues collected; the amount of motor-vehicle revenue available for road work by or under State highway departments and under direction of local authorities; the average gross revenue return per motor-car registered; the population per motor car; and the number of motor cars per mile of public rural road. The second table, entitled Motor-car registrations and gross motorvehicle revenues, 19 to 19-, shows for the previous year and for each of the several years preceding, by States, the total motor-car registrations and the total gross revenues therefrom. The third table, entitled Motor-vehicle registration and license fees in force January 1, 19—, shows for each State the prescribed registration and license charges for motor cycles, pleasure cars, motor trucks and commercial cars, chauffeurs, owner operators, and dealers and manufacturers. STATE HIGHWAY EXPENDITURES AND MILEAGE. Two statements are regularly published relating to State highway expenditures and mileage, the figures included in both statements being compiled from the reports of the several State highway commissioners. Expenditures.-The statement 1 shows the total amount of Federal, State, and local funds expended during the past year by or under the supervision of the State highway department in each State. Expenditures are classified to show the amount expended for road and bridge construction; for maintenance of roads and bridges; for overhead expenses, divided between engineering and administrative supervision; and for equipment and miscellaneous. The statement also shows the approximate amount of expenditures made for local road and bridge work in each State not under the supervision of the State highway department, and the approximate amount of State funds available for road construction and maintenance during the current year. Mileage. This statement shows for the calendar year, by States, the miles of the several types of State and State-aid roads built; the miles of the several types of road maintained with State aid; and the number of bridges built by the States or by State aid. It also shows the total number of miles of surfaced roads and the total mileage of all public rural roads in each State, and the ratio of surfaced-road mileage to the total public rural-road mileage, in each State and in the United States as a whole. Public Road Mileage and Revenues. At five year intervals the Bureau of Public Roads conducts an inquiry to determine, for the entire United States, the mileage of improved and unimproved roads, the revenues available for road purposes, and related data. The results of this recurrent inquiry are published in bulletin form, separate bulletins being issued for the New England States, the Middle Atlantic States, the Central, Mountain, and Pacific States, and the Southern States. A summary of the four bulletins is also issued pertaining to the United States as a whole. The first survey was made in 1904. The information contained in the published bulletins is gathered by the Bureau of Public Roads in collaboration with State officials, usually members or employees of State highway commissions. Schedules are returned to the Bureau by its collaborators containing the required information, assembled from the records of the several State highway commissions. The published bulletins show in summary form, by States, (1) the total revenues applicable to roads and bridges for the year of the survey and comparably for preceding years; (2) the relation of public road and bridge revenues to road mileage, area, population, and assessed valuation for the year of the survey and comparably for pre 1 In addition to this regular statement, figures are published occasionally showing, by States, the annual cash road and bridge expenditures for a period of years, from State funds and from all sources combined. ceding years; (3) the amount of county and district road and bridge bond issues; (4) the total road mileage, showing separately the total mileage of surfaced roads; (5) the relation of the total road mileage and of the total surfaced mileage to area and rural population; and (6) the distribution of road mileage by types of construction. Tables are also included for each State showing, by counties, (1) the number of miles of public road of various types of construction; (2) the revenues applicable to roads and bridges, classified by sources; and (3) the amount of road and bridge bonds outstanding, together with related data showing particulars with reference to the financing of road construction and maintenance. WEATHER BUREAU. Almost immediately following its establishment on May 15, 1862, the Department of Agriculture began the monthly publication of meteorological data gathered by the Smithsonian Institution. The annual reports of agriculture by the Commissioner of Patents, prior to the establishment of the Department of Agriculture included a number of meteorological tables and articles, but these were not published systematically and regularly. A collection of meteorological tables for the period 1854–1859 was published jointly by the Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution. The Weather Bureau was created in 1870 as a part of the Signal Corps of the United States Army by a joint resolution of Congress of February, 9 of that year, which authorized and required the Secretary of War "to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms." This work was expanded by subsequent legislation to include the publication of reports concerning the stages of water in the rivers and the collection and dissemination of any climatological and meteorological data necessary for the benefit of the agricultural and commercial interests of the country. On July 1, 1891, under the Act approved October 1, 1890, the Weather Bureau, as such, was officially recognized and transferred from the War Department to the Department of Agriculture. This Act provided that * * * The Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture shall have charge of forecasting the weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of sea-coast telegraph lines, and the collection and |