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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents, May 1931 V Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents (WITH No. 437 May, 1931 ISSUED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON : 1931 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. - - - - Price 10 cents per copy Subscription price 75 cents per year Abbreviations Appendix___________________________ app. Octavo________________ ______ ..8° Congress__________________________ Cong. Page, pages....__________ _______ p. Department________________________ Dept. Part, parts._____________ ___ pt., pts. Document___________________________doc. Plate, plates_____________ —___ -Pl- Facsimile, facsimiles_________________ facsim. Portrait, portraits________ ______ por. Federal Trade Commission__________ F. T. C. Quarto________________ _______ 4° Folio____ ____________________________ f° Report________________ _______rp. House______________________________ H. Saint_____ ___ ________ _______St. House bill________ ___ _____________ H. R. Section, sections__________ ______ sec. House concurrent resolution______ H. Con. Res. Senate, Senate bill________ _______ 8. House document___________________ H. doc. Senate concurrent resolution_ .S. Con. Res. House executive document_________ H. ex. doc. Senate document_________ ____ S. doc. House joint resolution_____________ H. J. Res. Senate executive document__________S. ex. doc.. House report_________ ____ _________ H. rp. Senate joint resolution......... ............. ...S. J. Res. House resolution (simple)...__________ H. Res. Senate report___________ ________ _...S. rp. Illustration, illustrations_________________ 11. Senate resolution (simple)_____________S. Res. Inch, inches__________________________ in. Session_____________________________ sess. Interstate Commerce Commission______ I. C. C. Sixteenmo___________ 16° Latitude____________________________ lat. Table, tables_________________________tab. Longitude______________ long. Thirtytwo-mo________________________ 32° Mile, miles___________________________ m. Treasury_________________________ Treas. Miscellaneous___________________ mis., misc. Twelvemo___________________________ 12° Nautical_________ naut. Twenty four-mo.___ ___________________ 24° No date_____________ ____ __________ n. d. Versus___________________________ vs., v. No place___________________________ n. p. Volume, volumes___________________ v., vol. Number, numbers_________________ no., nos. Year_______________________________ yr. Common abbreviations for names of States and months are also used. * Document for sale by Superintendent of Documents. t Distribution by office issuing document, free if unaccompanied by a price, t Printed for official use. Note .—Nearly all of the departments of the Government make a limited free distribu- tion of their publications. When an entry shows a * price, it is possible that upon applica- tion to the issuing office a copy may be obtained without charge. Explanation Words and figures inclosed in brackets [ ] are given for information, but do not appear on the title-pages of the publications catalogued. When place and printer are not given, it is to be understood that the publication is printed at the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. When size is not given octavo is to be understood. Size of maps is measured from outer edge of border, excluding margin. The date, including day, month, and year, given with Senate and House documents and reports are the dates on which they were ordered to be printed. Usually the printing promptly follows the ordering, but various causes sometimes make delays. The L. C. card number appended to some of the entries is for those libraries ordering printed cards from the Library of Congress. The number at the ex- treme right of an entry indicates the classification of the publication in the Office of the Superintendent of Documents. HOW TO ORDER PUBLICATIONS—FOLLOWS CONTENTS II Monthl y Catalogue No. 437 MAY 1931 AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT Those publications of the Department of Agriculture which are for sale will be o Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. The Department issues a monthly list of publications which will be mailed to all applicants, enabling them to select such reports and bulletins as interest them. s Crops and markets, May, 1931; v. 8, no. 5. [1931.] p. 161-200, il. 4°. [Monthly.] * Paper, 60e. a yr.; foreign subscription, 85c. L. C. card Agr 24-113 A 36.11/3 : 8/5 Official record, Department of Agriculture, v. 10, no. 18-22; May 2-30, 1931. [1931.] p. 133-168, il. 4° [Weekly.] * Paper, 50c. a yr.; foreign subscrip- tion, $1.10. L. C. card Agr 22-146 A 1.33 :10/18-22 Onions. Genetic factors for pigmentation in onion and their relation to dis- ease resistance [with list of literature cited] ; by G. H. Rieman. 1931. [2]+251-278 p. 3 pl. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 5, Mar. 1, 1931.] f A 1.23/a: On 4/14 Plant containers. Effect of structure and moisture of plant containers on temperature of their soil contents; by Linus H. Jones. 1931. [2] +375-378 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 6, Mar. 15, 1931.] f A 1.23/a : P 694/22 Publications. Monthly list of publications, Apr. 1931. [1931.] 4 p. f L. C. card Agr $-1414 A 21.6/5 : 931/4 [Regulations of Department of Agriculture: Fiscal, Property, Administrative, with appendix, Provisions of law affecting fiscal, property, and administra- tive regulations of Department of Agriculture, amendments and reprints.] [1931.] [6] p. 12° [These are reprints of variously numbered pages to be inserted in their proper places in the original publication, and amend the section entitled Administrative regulations of Department of Agriculture.] f A 1.19: 924/p. 421 R-428R Sheep. Urinary calculi in sheep [with list of literature cited] ; by B. E. Pontius, R. H. Carr, and L. P. Doyle. 1931. [2]+433-446 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 7, Apr. 1, 1931.] f A 1.23/a: Sh 36/7 Swine. Effect of calcium fluoride and phosphate rock on calcium retention of young growing pigs [with list of literature cited] ; by F. J. McClure and H. H. Mitchell. 1931. [2]+363-373 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 6, Mar. 15, 1931.] f A 1.23/a : P 629/7 Tobacco. Brief of classification of leaf tobacco, covering classes and types of tobacco, established and promulgated by Secretary of Agriculture under au- thority of tobacco stocks and standards act (public no. 661, 70th Congress) [with General instructions for filing tobacco stocks reports]. [Revised edition.] 1931. [2] p. f° f A 1.2 :T 55/931 Vitamins. Value of alfalfa as source of vitamin A in sorghum-grain rations [with list of literature cited] ; by Margaret Cammack Smith and Mabel L. Lynott. 1931. [2] +421-432 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research v. 42, no. 7, Apr. 1, 1931.] | A 1.23/a : Al 28/19 ------ Vitamin A content of oats; by Clara R. Meyer and Rossleene Arnold Hetler. 1931. [2]+501-506 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 8, Apr. 15, 1931.] f A 1.23/a : V 831/18 How to order publications—See information following Contents 945 60912—31—No. 437---- 2 946 May , 1931 Wheat. Inheritance in wheat cross between hybrid 128 X white Odessa and Kanred [with list of literature cited] ; by George Stewart and R. W. Wood- ward. 1931. ii-f-507-520 p. il. [From Journal of agricultural research, v. 42, no. 8, Apr. 15, 1931.] t A 1.23/a : W 56/100 'Yearbook. Yearbook of agriculture, 1931; Milton S. Eisenhower, editor, Arthur P. Chew, associate editor. 1931. iv+1113 p. il. * Cloth, $1.50. L. C. card Agr 7-1035 A 1.10: 931 Contents .—Year in agriculture, Secretary’s report to the President [1930].—What’s new in agriculture.—Department publications, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1930.—Crop and live- stock production trends, charts of production statistics for important products, covering 40 years, as far as available.—Agricultural statistics.—Index. ----- Same. (H. doc. 777, 71st Cong. 3d sess.) AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BUREAU Agricultural situation, brief summary of economic conditions, May 1, 1931; v. 15, no. 5. [1931.] 2'4 p. [Monthly.] * Paper, 5c. single copy, 25c. a yr.; foreign subscription, 40c. L. C. card Agr 26-1797 A 36.15:15/5 Cattle. Cooperative livestock shipping associations; [prepared in Division of Livestock, Meats, and Wool and Division of Agricultural Cooperation], [July, 1926, reprint 1930.] ii-f-28 p. il. (Agriculture Dept. Farmers’ bulle- tin 1502.) [Supersedes Farmers’ bulletins 718 and 1292.] * Paper, 5c. L. C. card Agr 26-1157 A 1.9 :1502/1-3 Cotton. Factors affecting price of cotton [with list of literature cited]; by Bradford B. Smith. Jan. 1928, [reprint] 1931. cover-title, 75 p. il. (Agricul- ture Dept. Technical bulletin 50.) * Paper, 15c. L. C. card Agr 28-278 A 1.36: 50/1-3 jCbw-peas. Marketing cowpea seed crop; [by J. E. Barr]. [Jan, 1923, reprint 1931.] 27 p. il. (Agriculture Dept. Farmers’ bulletin 1308.) * Paper, 5c. L. C. card Agr 23-325 A 1.9:1308/1-4 Crops. Comments on crop report of Apr. 1 [1931; Production of important crops in 5 leading States, 1929 and 1930; Price situation, summary as of Apr. 15, 1931]. [1931.] p. 124, 126-127, 158, 4° [From Crops and markets, v. 8, no. 4.] f A 36.ll/3a : C 883/35 ----- Supplement to Crop reporter, v. 15, no. 6, crop reports for June-Aug. 1913. Apr. 1931. 8 p. 4° [Crop reporter was issued by Statistics Bureau in 1913.] t A 27.6/1:15/6/supp. Note .—These crop reports were prepared and released on the dates stated on each, but were never issued in printed form as a part of the permanent records of the Department of Agriculture owing to the discontinuance of the Crop reporter in June, 1913. These reports are now printed in this form to complete the permanent record of crop reports from their beginning in 1899 to the present date, Apr. 1931, the record having been continued from Aug. 1913, by the Agricultural outlook, Monthly crop report, Monthly crop reporter, Weather, crops, and markets, and Crops and markets. This pamphlet should be inserted in the bound volumes of the Crop reporter at the end of v. 15, no. 6 (June, 1913). Peaches. Preparation of peaches for market; [by II. W. Samson]. [Apr.
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