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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

JUNE 30, 1868. Resolved, That there shall be printed for the use of the members of the House of Representatives one hundred and eighty thousand extra copies of the annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and twenty thousand copies for the Commissioner of Agriculture.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

JULY 20, 1868. Resolved, That there be printed for the use of the Senate twenty thousand extra copies of the agricultural report for eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and three thousand extra copies for distribution by the Commissioner of Agriculture.

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Report of the acting Commissioner of Agricultare, Hon. John W. Stokos

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Hon. Horace Capron.....

Condition of the Department of Agriculture, by Hon. Horace Capron, Commissioner.

Report of the Superintendent of the Experimental Garden, William Saunders ..

Report of the Chemist, Thomas Antisell, M. D......

Report of the Entomologist, Professor Townend Glover...

Report of the Statistician, J. R. Dodge.....

Popular varieties of hardy fruits, by F. R. Elliott

The fruits of Florida, by George W. Atwood

Culture of the orange and citron, by Miss Laura C. Redden.

American wine and wine-making, by George Husmann....

Paris Exhibition, report on the culture and product of the vine, by Marshall P. Wilder,

Alexander Thompson, William J. Flagg, and Patrick Barry ...

Rice culture, by Augustus L. Taveau

Culture and management of tobacco, by Walter W. W. Bowie.

Experiments in liquid manuring, by William S. Rand.

Farm experiments, by William H. Farquhar.

Irrigation, by Charles D. Poston.....

Value of birds on the farm, by Edward A. Samuels

Winter bee-keeping, by Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper

Feeding beef cattle in the middle States, by William C. Lodge.

Rocky Mountain goat

China grass....

Manufacture of goat-fleece....

Water for destitute regions, by D. S. Curtiss..

Farmers' clubs, by Rufus Nutting ....

Diversity of agricultural productions, by Thomas S. Pleasants..

History of American inventions for cultivation by steam, by Professor J. Brainerd...

Steam cultivation, by D. S. Curtiss

Steam ploughing in Louisiana, by H. E. Lawrence.

Climate of the Pacific coast, by Professor E. C. Merrick

Model farm buildings...

Philadelphia butter ....

Hybridizing, cross-breeding, and degeneration of plants, by Horace Piper.

Our industrial coileges....

State reports of agriculture...

State, district and county agricultural societies....

Agricultural magazines and newspapers ..

Cotton under high culture, by George W Gift.

Southern agriculture...

Meteorology of 1867 ...

Donations to the mnseum..

General Index of Agricultural Reports, from 1847 to 1866, inclusive..

Index to report for 1867...