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Excerpt from Report 1862-93 There have been issued from the Department, from December 1, 1868, to December 1, 1869, packages of seeds, including varieties of vegetables, owers, wheat, rye, barley, oats, ramie, tobacco, clover, rice, cotton, and sorghum, distributed as follows: To members of Congress, agricultural societies, correspondents of the Depart ment, meteorological observers, miscellaneous, Reports cf the success attending experiments with seed distributed are daily received, a digest of which is published in the monthly reports, and some of the more notable are given in the accompanying reports of annual transactions. Especial attention has been given to the intro duction of the best varieties of cereals suited to the different climates and soils of the country. These have been very widely disseminated, and meet the warm approbation of farmers in every section of the Union. 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.