No. 7, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 13 



spectfully suggest the propriety of providing for the publication of 

 a greater number of each new bulletin and the publication of new 

 editions of such of the numbers that are exhausted, as in the judg- 

 ment of the Secretary may be deemed proper. 



In order to comply with your expressed desire that the cost of 

 public printing shall be hept as low as is at all consistent with the 

 good of the public service, I have endeavored to make this personal 

 report as brief as possible; and to meet the expressed view of the 

 Attorney General's Department, as to what may be lawfully in- 

 cluded in this report, I have been obliged to leave out much import- 

 ant matter that has heretofore appeared in the Annual Report of 

 this Department. I regret that under the law% as it now is, I am 

 unable to include with this report the entire proceedings of State 

 Associations, organized for the advancement of the interests of 

 agriculture in its several branches, and that I can only give abstracts 

 of such proceedings. 



The essays read at Farmers' Institutes contain much valuable 

 information for farmers of the State, and it is only because I am 

 informed that they cannot legally be published that they have been 

 left out. I hope, however, to be able to preserve at least some of 

 these by publishing them in bulletin form. 



The elimination of the matter referred to will diminish the size 

 of the Report, as well as its value to the Agriculture of the State, 

 but it is hoped that the saving to the Commonwealth in the item of 

 printing, may in some measure compensate this loss. 



I wish, in conclusion, to express my appreciation of the assistance 

 and counsel your Excellency has so cheerfully and promptly given 

 me whenever called upon. I desire also in this public manner to 

 acknowledge the help given by the agricultural as well as the 

 public press of the State, by encouraging every attempt to attain 

 better methods and secure more satisfactory results. 

 I have the honor to be, 



Verv trulv vours, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



