Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...

With the Compliments of

Wm. G. LeDuc,

Commissioner of Agriculture.

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE

FOR

THE YEAR 1878.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
March 3, 1879.

The following resolution was agreed to by the Senate February 27, 1879, and concurred in by the House of Representatives March 3, 1879:

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed three hundred thousand copies of the Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1878; two hundred and twenty-four thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, fifty-six thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and twenty thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture.

Attest:

2

GEO. C. GORHAM,

Secretary.

CONTENTS.

Report of the Commissioner.

Prefatory to reports of heads of divisions, by Commissioner.

Report of the Chemist

Report of the Botanist and Chemist

Report of the Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds.

Report of the Entomologist.....

Report of the Statistician....