MONTHLY EEPORT 



OF 



THE DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 



FOR NOVEMBER, 1863. 



Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, December, 1863. 



No montlily report will be made for December, and from a monthly it will be 

 changed to one issued every two months. This change is rendered necessary 

 because these reports are now embracing too many and too important subjects 

 to be properly prepared in so short time. Nor does a monthly allow our regular 

 correspondents to obtain and communicate the information asked of them. 



The reports of next year will be much larger, each containing an article on 

 some subject necessary to be discussed, and fuller comments on the matters 

 embodied iu the tables. The imports and exports, and all questions affecting 

 the markets of our agricultural products at home and abroad; will be noticed. 

 The meteorology will embrace the customary reports of each month. 



The Com"missioner asks the special attention of his regular correspondents to 

 his article on the monthly reports, in which their proposed future connexion 

 with this Department in the discharge of various duties is noticed, should Con- 

 gress sanction the views it presents. He avails himself of this opportunity to 

 again return his acknowledgments for their fidelity and promptness. 



Hereafter the circulars will be issued in the beginning of the month, and not 

 returned until near the close of it, thus giving the desired time to obtain 

 information. 



ISAAC NEWTON, Commissioner. 



