Given, as Reported to Bradstreets.

seeds, contains the largest amount of pure and Total Visible Supplies of Grain Available in the United States and Canada at the Dates vigorously germinating clover at the least cost is the best one for the farmer to buy. Lowpriced samples seldom fulfill this condition,"

nor do those sold at exorbitantly high prices. of the Rocky Mountains, stocks in Manitoba elevators, and stocks afloat on lakes and canals. The following figures represent stocks of grain available at 62 of the principal points of accumulation East Pacific Coast stocks are shown only in the case of wheat.

Since there are over 5,000,000 farms, gardens, ranches, and stock ranges in the United States, conducted under widely differing conditions of climate and soil, it is evident that the schedule for a census of agriculture, to be at all comNo. 107. Experiment Station Work.-XIII. prehensive, must be the product of careful CONTENTS: Fertilizer requirements of crops-Persim- study evolved from extensive and accurate mons-Forcing Rhubarb-Grinding corn for cows-knowledge of the country. Waste in feeding cornstalks-Molasses for farm animals-Feeding ducks-Cost of raising calves-Feeding

calves with milk of tuberculous cows-Killing the germs

of tuberculosis in milk-Ropy milk and cream-Dairy

5,000 Circular No. 20, Division of Agrostology.
27,000 Experiments with Forage Plants in Ontario.
Circular No. 21, Division of Agrostology.
1,540 Cooperative Range Grass and Forage Plant
360 Experiments at Highmore, S. Dak.

Circular No. 22, Division of Agrostology.
Grass and Forage Plant Investigations on the
Pacific Coast.

Circular No. 22, Division of Forestry. tical Assistance to Tree Planters. that country to be 88,536,240 bushels, against Forces which Operate to Destroy Roads, with Circular No. 29, Office of Road Inquiry. The

Notes on Road Stones and Problems Therewith tions of the enumerators.
Connected.

Director Merriam requests that farmers and

Circular No. 30, Office of Road Inquiry. producers talk this subject over with their Repairs of Macadam Roads.

Bulletin No. 16, Section of Foreign Markets.
Distribution of the Agricultural Exports of the
United States, 1894-1898.

Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture.

Vol. I.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH, 1900.

No. II.

condition of winter wheat and rye, as usual, schedule are self-explanatory and require only DIVISION OF STATISTICS, in a percentage. The base used for calculating a sample statement of fact as to the existence WASHINGTON, D. C. this percentage should be 100, which is assumed of specified agencies harmful or beneficial to THE CROP REPORTER is issued as a conven- to represent a crop of normal vitality and the plant from seed time up to the returnable ient medium of communication between the growth. If the condition of the present grow-date on the schedule. Correspondents are Division of Statistics and the crop reporters of ing crop, therefore, is one of normal vitality invited to describe any peculiarities of the the Department of Agriculture. It is not designed for general distribution and will be sent and growth, correspondents should express winter season just passed and any variations only to regularly enrolled correspondents of such a condition by inserting 100 under the in temperature, or plant growth, from the the Division. The subject matter will be pre- query in the schedule. A condition better pared primarily with the idea of aiding and than a normal would hence be expressed by instructing correspondents in the work of crop reporting; and it is hoped that it may instill into correspondents that spirit of inquiry and investigation upon which the success of their work so largely depends. All inquiries or suggestions that may be called forth by articles herein contained will receive consid

erate attention.

JOHN HYDE,
Statistician.

The April Report.

The inquiries submitted by the Department to its correspondents, to be answered on March 31 chiefly have reference, either directly or indirectly, to the condition on that date of the growing crops of winter wheat and rye, and to the losses among live stock, either from disease or exposure, during the year ending March 31,

1900.

105, 110, 115, etc., or by a scale ascending above
100 proportionately to the correspondent's esti-
mate of the improvement of the condition of
the present crop over an assumed crop of nor-
mal growth and vitality. A condition inferior
to a normal should be expressed by gradations
below 100 on exactly the same principle and
scale.

normal.

The other inquiries of the schedule relate to live stock, and have for their object to ascertain the losses per 1,000 of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine from disease or exposure, and the names of diseases, in their relative order of importance, that have been unusually prevalent among these species of animals during the year ending March 31. The answers to these questions are on a simple numerical basis and require only simple calculations. The estimated number of breeding sows on April 1, 1900, as compared with that of April 1, 1899, is also requested.

The May Schedule.

Correspondents of the Division of Statistics will be requested to report in the schedule returnable May 1, upon the following subjects:

1. The estimated area of winter wheat under cultivation May 1, 1900, expressed as a percent

The determination of the normal as a base for estimating the percentages is manifestly the important factor in the expression of condition. For the purpose of aiding correspondents to as definite a conception as possible of this abstract term, the Statistician has frequently issued to correspondents an interpretation of the significance of the word as applied to crop reporting. A repetition, however, may doubtless be found of benefit. "The normal may be described as a condition Full and accurate replies to the queries con- of perfect healthfulness, unimpaired by cerning the above-mentioned crops, especially drought, hail, insects, or other injurious wheat, are of more than ordinary importance. agency, and with such growth and develop-age of the area sown during the fall of 1899. These replies will constitute the basis for the ment as may reasonably be looked for under first official estimate of the extent of such favorable conditions. It does not represent a damages as may have occurred to winter crops crop of extraordinary character, such as may through climatic or other causes during the be produced here and there by the special past winter. Moreover, the fall-sown acreage effort of some highly skilled farmer with being already known, the official figures indi- abundant means, or such as may be grown on cating the April 1 condition are likely to be a bit of land of extraordinary fertility, or even widely accepted as a second-known factor for such as may be grown quite extensively once tentative estimates of the probable yield of the in a dozen years in a season that is extraordi1900 harvest. In fact, the determination of narily favorable to the crop to be raised. A the April condition of winter wheat in the United States is an event that is always awaited with great interest throughout all the great wheat-consuming nations of the world. It is accepted as suggesting, should present conditions be maintained, what this country's contribution to the world's supplies is likely to be during the current year.

normal crop, in short, is neither deficient on the one hand nor extraordinarily heavy on the other. While a normal condition is rarely reported for the entire corn, wheat, cotton, or other crop area, at the same time or in the same year, its local occurrence is by no means uncommon, and wherever it is found to exist, it should be indicated by 100." The "special Correspondents are requested to state the inquiries relating to winter wheat" in the

2. Estimate of the condition of growth and vitality of winter wheat, winter rye, meadowmowing lands and spring pastures on May 1, 1900, expressed as a percentage of 100 as a

normal.

3. The proportion of spring plowing already done on May 1, 1900.

4. The proportion of spring plowing usually done by May 1, in an average year.

5. Tendency and causes thereof to change the usual proportions of areas of the principal crops this spring.

COUNTY Correspondents who do not receive reports from their assistants in time to compile results from them by the first of the month should not, on that account, delay the prompt transmission of their own report, made up from the best information available.

180 lbs. P. bu. P. lb. P. lb. P. lb.
24 78,19 19 20

21

9.00

7.50

9.50 2.25 2.75.58
9.00 1.25 1.62 39

29

26

7.75

8.50 1.25 2.00 42

26

8.50 10.00 1.25 2.37 53

26

April

70 76 738

80

798

May

68 79 731

80

June

71 79 731

Aug

69 74% 689

33 28 14 32 36 29 39 34 52 12 13 36 39 29 50 12 13 36 39 35 43 46 12134 35

15 30

100 lbs. P. lb. P. lb. P. doz. P. doz. P. lb. P. lb. 203 3.55 4.25 21 22 22 22 11 11 8 9104 104 8 104 23 3.35 4.25 19 20 18 19 10 15 7 11 124 124 101 111 3.65 4.17 19 20 18 20 10 15 8 11 8 8 10 10 3.30 4.05 19 21 19 21 17 29 13 22 10 10 10 11 3.45 4.05 19 25 19 23 19 35 13 32 10 11 11 11 3.50 4.00 20 22 20 22 124 30 10 17 11 12 11 111 3.50 4.15 17 21 17 21 12 14 10 11 12 12 12 12 3.45 4.05 16 19 17 17 131 16 104 11 8 12 10 12 27 3.45 4.00 18 18 18 19 14 15 10 11 7 8 9 92 263.55 4.70 17 18 18 18 15 16 9 27 3.85 5.00 17 21 18 21 15 18 | 9 27 3.90 4.90 20 23 20 23 18 21 11 154 11 11 11 12 28413.80 4.90 23 24 23 24 20 22 14 15 12 12 13 13 32 3.55 4.35 24 27 24 26 21 24 16 17 12 12 12 13 35 3.50 4.45 26 28 26 27 21 24 17 17 12 13 12 12) 35 3.70 4.92 24 30 24 30 17 26 12 17 12 13 12 12 36 3.70 5.10 24 26 24 24 13 19 10 14 12 13 12 12) 35 4.00 4.97 24 24 24 24 15 153 154 15 13 13 12 12

Assistant County Correspondents.

The Cotton Movement.

Export of Wheat.

The number of strictly agricultural counties The Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton A monograph recently published by the in the United States is upwards of 2,500, and Exchange analyzes the cotton movement for Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Departconsequently the total number of county cor- the six months of the season, from September ment contains the following in relation to the respondents, principals and assistants, consti- 1 to the close of February, as follows: Texas, influence of the foreign wheat market upon tutes a very considerable body of men. Dis- including the Indian Territory, has brought the internal grain trade of the United States: tributed, as they are, over the entire United into sight this season, as compared with the "The influence of the foreign market upon the States, it is evident that the common vicissi- same period last year, 874,000 bales less; the internal grain trade of the United States is tudes of life-death, illness, change of resi- other Gulf States, which include Arkansas, becoming constantly greater. While the dence or other cause-will from time to time Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, domestic consumption is rapidly increasing it leave some localities temporarily unrepre- and Oklahoma, have marketed 249,000 bales is not growing at as rapid a rate as the foreign sented in the corps of county correspondents. less; and the group of the Atlantic States, demand. From 1867 to 1872 the United States It is essential to the accuracy of the Statisexported annually 35,000,000 bushels of wheat; tician's estimates that all such lapses should from 1873 to 1878, 73,400,000 bushels annually; be filled with as little delay as possible. from 1879 to 1883, 157,600,000 bushels annually. After this period there was a decrease in the quantity exported, the exports amounting to only 122,400,000 bushels from 1884 to 1888, and 144,400,000 bushels from 1889 to 1893; but, during the last half decade (1894 to 1898) the export reached the annual total of 159,600,000 bushels of wheat. During these six periods the export of wheat was 15.53, 24.59, 34.91, 27.74, 28.86, and 34.96 per cent, respectively, of the total production, the proportion for these half decennial periods varying between less than a sixth to over a third of the total crop."

which includes North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Virginia,
shows a decrease of 632,000 bales, making the
decrease in the total crop 1,755,000 bales.
Total crop in sight at the close of February,
7,693,018 bales, a decrease as compared with
last year of 1,754,524 bales.

It is the design of the Department that each principal county correspondent shall be aided in making his estimate of the crop conditions of his county by three assistant correspondents residing in different sections of the same county and reporting directly to the principal REPORTS should be mailed to the Departon the conditions of their respective localities. ment as nearly as possible to the day specified From the reports of these assistants, combined in the schedule. If, however, a preference has with his own calculations, the principal cor- to be expressed between reports mailed prerespondent compiles his estimate of the agri-vious to that date by more than a day or two cultural conditions of his county and transmits and those mailed more than one or two days it directly to the Department. subsequent to it, the preference should be in favor of early rather than late reports. Reports made too early have a diminished value; those that reach the Department too late for tabulation have no value whatever.

In this system it is evident that any lapses in the force of principal county correspondents, who are in direct communication with the ATTENTION is again called to the fact that Department, would be immediately noticeable the Yearbook for 1899 will not be available for and could be promptly rectified; but the assistdistribution until the latter part of May, at ant correspondents are not in direct commuTHE wheat crop of the United States in 1839 the earliest, and requests for the same should nication with the Department, and an occawas 84,823,272 bushels; in 1849, 100,485,944 | not be made until that time. In consequence sional lapse from any cause in this branch of bushels; in 1859, 173,104,924 bushels; in 1869, of the great demand for this publication and the service might possibly escape the Depart-260,146,900 bushels; in 1879, 448,756,630 bush- changes in the lists of correspondents, no atment's notice for a considerable length of time. els; in 1889, 490,560,000 bushels; in 1899, tempt can be made to keep a list of advance It is, therefore, important to the Department 547,303,846 bushels. applications. that principal county correspondents who, from any cause whatever, find themselves lacking in the service of the requisite number of assistants, should at once advise the Department of this fact. A list, giving the addresses of farmers in their county to whom is sent the Department's monthly crop report, will then be furnished them. From this list there can usually be obtained the names of intelligent THE official estimate of the 1898-99 sugar farmers willing to furnish principal correspondents with monthly reports upon the agri- output of Mexico is 49,856 long tons. By far cultural conditions of their respective locali- the greater portion of this enters into home consumption.

ties.

THE AVERAGE freight rate on wheat from Chicago to New York by all-rail route decreased from 29 cents per bushel in 1868 to 11.13 cents per bushel in 1899.

EXPORTS of wheat, including flour, from the United States aggregate 138,579,386 bushels during the period from July 1 to the present time, against 173,111,695 bushels for the corresponding period last year, and 168,941,514 bushels in 1897–98.

A RECENT official estimate gives the 1899 wheat crop of Ireland at 1,731,200 bushels.

The 1900 Wheat Crop.

With the opening of spring in the principal wheat-growing countries of Europe and America, the attention of both growers and dealers is generally diverted from the old crop to the new. Up to the present time the supplies from last year's harvests and the demands that have been made upon them, as indicated by the quantities appearing upon the markets and disappearing thence into the various channels of consumption, have been the basic factors in the establishment and variations of prices. Henceforth, however, values will likely show sensitiveness principally to news concerning the prospects and conditions of the crop of 1900.

It is too early as yet to hazard an estimate as to the present condition, to say nothing of the probable outcome, of the crop, as a whole, that will be harvested during the present year. A few facts concerning that crop have, however, already come into view. In the southern hemisphere harvesting has been completed in Australasia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Cape Colony. Although complete official reports have been received from none of these countries, sufficient is known to give assurance that the two principal growers, Argentina and Australasia, have reaped crops that will com

States, beginning in the southern part of that
continent sometime near the opening of har-
vesting operations in Texas and progressing
northward as our harvest advances towards the
Dakotas. To obtain a comprehensive knowl-
edge of the prospects or condition of this im-
portant European crop as a whole, at any
given time, is at present almost impossible.
Divided, as that continent is, into many in-
dependent nations, united in no general sys-
tem of crop reporting, even a general concep-
tion of crops, as a whole, can be had only by
combining such data as are attainable from
the different Governments into results that
seem most likely to suggest the prospects of
the continent in its entirety. At present none
of the data at hand seems to indicate any gen-

Distribution of Imported Seeds.

The distribution of seed by the Department of Agriculture has been placed under the general supervision of the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. The principal distribution is that known as 66 the Congressional," which is confined almost exclusively to the well-known varieties of garden, flower, and field seeds. The distribution of foreign seeds has been assigned to the Division of Botany under a section known as the "Section of Seed and Plant Introduction." Further particulars respecting the distribution of seeds and plants will be found on pages 35 and 36 of the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture for 1898.

To insure the best results and obtain the

fullest information in regard to the practical value of imported seeds, the distribution under the immediate direction of the Division of Botany is conducted in a scientific and thoroughly systematic manner, and recipients of seeds or plants are expected to report the results of their experiments to the Department, giving the most complete information in regard thereto. As a rule, experiments should be continued for several years, with a view to securing the acclimatization of the varieties and determining their real value. New varieties of seeds are imported in small quantities, and only a limited supply is available for experimental purposes by any one person. For obvious reasons this seed can not be supplied to persons living in sections of the country where it is already known that the seed requested can not be successfully cultivated. From the

eral divergence in the present condition of the crop from that of an average year. It is certain, however, that in the western part of the continent, especially in Northern France, the past winter has been of such a character as is universally recognized to be unfavorable to the wheat plant. Lack of snow protection, at times of severe freezing and alternate thawing, now, upon the advent of spring, is said to show its effects in fields bare or yellowed by frosts Reports, though conflicting as to the extent of damage, are unanimous in admitting its existence. Rumors of damage from like climatic pare favorably with the fine crops of last year. conditions, though more vague and indefinite, Uruguay has also reaped an average crop, but have come to hand from Holland, Belgium, the Chilian and Cape Colony crops, which, how- and Germany. In England, unusually cold ever, are not commercially important, are be- weather in February, followed by a period of lieved to be deficient. As competitors of the excessive moisture, though not yet regarded United States in the world's markets, none of as having done manifest injury, is looked upon above explanation, correspondents should not the above countries is of extraordinary impor- with some anxiety as likely to affect adversely tance, with the exception of Argentina. The the final outcome of the crop. A winter of unwheat exports from that country during the usual severity seems likewise to have been expast year may be roughly stated at about one-perienced in the Scandinavian peninsula. third the volume of the United States exports In the central and western parts of southern for the same year; and, hence, anything like an equal crop this year is likely to prove a considerable factor in the making of prices.

Europe, such reports as have been published
seem to indicate that the present condition of
the wheat crop is fully an average one.

As is usual at this season of the year, reports
from the important wheat-producing country;
Russia, are meagre and apply only to localized
Earlier in the year news came of cli-
matic conditions in some parts of the Empire
that were decidedly unfavorable to the plant,
but consequent injury lacks confirmation.

areas.

The earliest important wheat harvest of the northern hemisphere is that of British India, and harvesting operations will take place there during the present month. Indications now are that a heavy deficit and a consequent decrease, or possibly entire cessation, of exports from India will more than counterbalance the probably large exports from Argentina and Australasia in the world's markets. Official Wheat in Farmers' Hands Mar. 1, 1892–1900. reports on the acreage sown and the adverse climatic influences that have since prevailed, point unmistakably to a heavy deficiency in the Indian crop, either as compared with an average or with the crop of last year. No official data have yet been published that indicate quantitatively what the amount of the deficit will be; but that it will be important, seems beyond doubt.

The following table shows the quantity of wheat produced in the United States annually from 1891 to 1899, and the amount remaining in farmers' hands on March 1 of each year from 1892 to 1900. It is important to note that the farm reserve on March 1 of any one year, as given in the table, refers to the amount remaining on hand on that date from the crop of the previous year.

1891.

1893.

The importance of Europe, when considered in connection with the wheat trade, is evidenced by the fact that that continent not only produces more than one-half the world's 1892. crop, but also consumes the greater portion of the surplus of exporting nations. Generally speaking, the harvest in Europe takes place simultaneously with harvest in the United 1899.

1894.

1895
1896.

1897

1898.

Crop.

611.780.000 1892.

515.949.000 1893.

be disappointed in the event that it is found impossible to comply with their requests.

Among the imported seeds now being distributed are the sugar beet; the Beardless brome grass; Hairy vetch, No. 3769; Texas Rustproof oats, No. 4406; the "Khiva” winter muskmelon, No. 3945; the "Mathis" watermelon, No. 4269, and the "Jannovitch" the fiber of this variety of cotton approximates Egyptian cotton, No. 3991. It is claimed that the Sea Island in length and fineness of staple. It is deemed worthy of test in the Gulf Coast region and in the rice-growing districts where irrigation is practicable, inasmuch as its successful culture would very materially increase limited supply of Florida grown Sumatra the profits of cotton growing. There is also a tobacco seed, No. 3388; Sumatra tobacco seed, No. 4421, and some Brazilian tobacco seed, No. 4422. The foregoing seeds, with the exception latitude. Requests for the varieties of seeds of the cotton, are adapted to a wide range of named should be addressed to the Chief of the Division of Statistics. Such requests will be promptly filled until the very limited supply is exhausted.

If the seeds asked for are not received within a reasonable time, it will be safe to infer that ! Farm reserve March 1. the supply is exhausted. As the primary ob171,070,881 ject of this distribution is to determine the 135,205,430 value of the seeds sent out, more than the 114.060.440 usual care should be taken to give them a fair 74,999,790 123.045.290 test. A full report of their merits and adapta88.149.072 bility to the locality should be given, as it is 121.320.500 only in this way that the primary object of the 158,700,000 distribution can be accomplished.

396,131,725 1894.
460.267,416 1895
467.102.947 1896.
427,684,346 1897
530.149.168 1898
675.148,705 1899
547,303,846 1900.

198,056.496

Available Publications.

The Department has recently issued three new Farmers' Bulletins. A limited number of these publications is available for distribution to correspondents, and copies will be sent on receipt of application. They are as follows: No. 109. Farmers' Reading Courses. This bulletin gives a history of the origin and development of farmers' reading courses, describes their main features, suggests methods for the organization of such courses, and contains lists of publications on agriculture used or recommended in the courses.

No. 110. Rice Culture in the United States. Contains information in relation to the production and importation of rice, areas suitable for its culture, American methods of using machinery in rice fields, and other matters relating to rice growing.

No. 113. The Apple and How to Grow It. Embraces topics intended especially for the guidance of the farmer in the propagation, cultivation, and care of the family orchard, but contains also the needed information for the enlargement of his orchard, so as to include market varieties, if he should desire to consider the commercial side of the question. The following are also available for distribution.

Farmers' Bulletins.

No. 24. Hog Cholera and Swine Plague.
No. 28. Weeds: And How to Kill Them.
No. 39. Onion Culture.
No. 40. Farm Drainage.
No. 49. Sheep Feeding.

No. 58. The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop.
With an Appendix on Soy Beans as Food for

Man.

No. 59. Bee Keeping.

Total Visible Supplies of Grain Available in the United States and Canada at the Dates
Given, as Reported to Bradstreet's.

The following figures represent stocks of grain available at 62 of the principal points of accumulation East of the Rocky Mountains, stocks in Manitoba elevators, and stocks afloat on lakes and canals. Pacific Coast stocks are shown only in the case of wheat.

The Seed Distribution.

7,814,000

the more so since it has become quite evident that there is no means of insuring the safe

It is greatly to be desired that there should transmission and delivery of seed. be a clear understanding between the Division

Correspondents will please note that, as

of Statistics and its correspondents in the mat-stated above, the supply of seed allotted to the
ter of the distribution of seed. In accordance Statistical Division for distribution is now
with the announcement made in the January entirely exhausted.
number of the Crop Reporter, such a distribu-
tion has taken place, and the greatest care has
been exercised to prevent any correspondent of
the Division from being overlooked. Never-
theless, the Department is in daily receipt of

No. 71. Some Essentials in Beef Production. communications from old and faithful cor-
No. 89. Cowpeas.

No. 97. Experiment Station Work-X. CONTENTS.-Manure from cows-Plants for alkali soils-Influence of alkali on plants-Feeding value of the corn plant-Sows and pigs at farrowing time-The soy bean as a feeding stuff-Alfalfa hay for hogs-Animal matter for poultry-Water and animal diseasesConstruction and cooling of cheese-Curing rooms-Irrigation investigations.

No. 106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle.
Bulletin.

Our

No. 18, Section of Foreign Markets.
Trade with Japan, China, and Hongkong,

1889-1899.

Farm Animals in 1900.

The following statements give the number, average price per head, and total value of horses, mules, milch cows, cattle, and sheep on the farms of the United States on January 1 of each of the years specified. No estimate of the number of swine was published on January 1, 1900; hence this species of animal is omitted from the statements.

ANIMALS,

1900.

NUMBER OF ANIMALS.

1899.

1898.

Other cattle

13,537,524 2,086,027 16,292,360 27,610,054 41,883,065

Horses
Milch cows.
Sheep

Mules

respondents stating that their quota of seeds has failed to reach them. The Statistician believes that all fair-minded correspondents will recognize his earnest desire to do whatever may be possible to show the high appreciation in which the voluntary services of the Department's statistical correspondents are held, and yet they can not fail to see that it is impossible for the Department to guarantee the safe delivery of seed. The total quantity sent out is so enormous as to preclude its being registered, and the utmost that this Division is able to do in the matter is to make sure that supplies are mailed to each correspondent. This has been done, and the entire quota allotted Horses for the use of this Division has been impartially apportioned among its statistical reporters. The Statistician is, therefore, unable now to honor in any way requests for additional supplies or even to duplicate orders in cases where the seed has not reached its destiComplaints in regard to the distribution of nation. In many instances correspondents vaccine by the Bureau of Animal Industry of have written that for years no seed has reached Other cattle the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and let-them. As the seed is invariably sent them ters of the Secretary defending the action of from this office, it is apparent that the Division the Bureau and stating the policy of the De- is powerless to assist such correspondents with partment in relation to its efforts to eradicate seed. The Department will cheerfully comply with all requests for available publications,

A statement of the character, amount, and value of the exports and imports of the United States and distribution of trade among the

countries mentioned.

Circular.

No. 28, Bureau of Animal Industry. Letters Relating to the Distribution of Vaccine.

animal diseases.