129 



1848, (from Patent Office fuml) $3,500 



1849, (from Patent Office fund), 3,500 



1850, (from Patent Office fund) 4,500 



1851, (from Patent Office fund) 5,500 



1852, (from Patent Office fund) 5, 000 



1853, (from Patent Office fund) 5,000 



Total from Patent Office fund, (reimbursed in 1855) 39, 000 



1854 35,000 



1855 25,000 



1856 105,000 



1857 (50,000 



1858 60,000 



1859 * 40,000 



1860 60,000 



1861 60,000 



1862 60,000 



1863, (including $20,000 to test tlie practicability of cnlrivatiug and pre- 

 paring flax and bemj} as a substitute for cotton) 185, 000 



1864 151,370 



1865 155, 300 



1866 , 149, 100 



1867 179,020 



1867, (transferred from tbe Bureau of Fi'eedmeu, Refugees and Abandoned 



Lands, for seeds for Southern States) 50, 000 



1868 120,068 



1868, (to pay claims against the Department contracted prior to June 1, 1867) 40, 000 



1869 141,440 



1870 145,370 



Total 1,810,668 



For permanent improvements, including the erection of the new duildiuff.fiirni^Jtinffjfinishinfj, ^-c. 



1867, (for the erection of the new Department building) $100, 000 



1868, (for heating, water, and gas apparatus, furniture, cases for museum, 

 library, apparatus for laboratory, &c.) 52, 525 



1870, (for new conservatory) ." 25^ 000 



For improvement of agricultural grounds 16, 700 



Total 194, 225 



AGRICULTUEE AND CLIMATE OF OEEGON. 



The secretary of the Oregon State Agricultural Society sends to the 

 Department, under date of January 18, 1871, a lengthy report, from which 

 we cull the following items of information relative to the agriculture, cli- 

 mate, and growth of that State : 



The early jjortion of the season of 1870 was very promising for fai'mers, but heavy 

 rains in the latter part of June, succeeded by extraordinarily hot days and nights, 

 arrested the filliug of grain. The wheat harvest was scarcely an average yield ; the 

 oats crop was one-fifth below the average; late potatoes did not yield three-fourths of 

 an avei'age croj). Early potatoes, however, did better, and there was a heavy crop of 

 hay, perhaps one-half above the average. Rust, uniTSual in the history of the State, 

 ati'ected the growing grain. One farmer had a field of oats entirely destroyed by the 

 red rvist, so common in the Eastern States, but heretofore unknown in Oregon. Our 

 correspondent believes that the damage to the growing crops was caused more by the 

 warm nights of July than by any other cause. Usually an Oregon summer day is 

 succeeded by a cool night, but in the season referred to warm nights succeeded the 

 warm days. To the same influence is ascribed the prevalence during the year of ague 

 and other miasmatic diseases. He had'not known up to 1870 of a single case of ague 

 during an experience of twenty-six years in that State. 



Notwithstanding the drawbacks of 1870, the general condition and prospects of the 



