Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1885 Among my first acts of administration, therefore, was the request of these institutions to send delegates to a convention to meet at this Department in the month of July last. The result of that meeting was most gratifying. All sections oi the country were represented, and throughout its deliberations there was a manifest desire to cc-operate With the Department in its efforts to develop systems which should better unify results of experiments and reports upon them. 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.