Excerpt from Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture, 1899 I have the honor to report upon the work of the Department of Agriculture for the year ending June 30, 1899. This report touches upon the work regularly carried on by the several Bureaus, Divisions, and Offices, and also indicates the new'lines of scientific inquiry inaugurated by the Department for the benefit of producers in the several States. A brief summary precedes more extended considera tion. I have also endeavored to give in sufficient detail the reasons for the estimates presented to Congress to carry on the work for the coming year. 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.