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comprises: 1. Prevalent ideas on forestal matters, as 

 advanced by distinguished writers, and by scientific 

 societies. 2. Forestal legislation in regard to the Union 

 and to individual States. 3. Instruction given to officials, 

 and methods of management followed in the existing 

 forests. 4. A forestal sketch of the country, specifying the 

 wooded areas, and the kinds of trees growing. 5. Sylvi- 

 cultural conditions of such species as might be introduced 

 advantageously into Spain. 6. Forest industries, more 

 especially those connected with the trade in timber, and 

 the exploitation of resinous products ; and an account of 

 maps and works and forest products which might be useful 

 in the instruction given in Spain, which they had collected. 

 This is followed by a more condensed review of the 

 agriculture of the United States, in which are tabulated the 

 respective money value of the several agricultural products 

 of the country, aod of the different kinds of animals reared 

 and tended ; the population of the different States ; and 

 the number of bushels of maize raised in each, with the 

 number of bushels of wheat to each inhabitant; the value 

 of cotton raised ; the value of the annual production of sugar 

 during the preceding five-aud-twenty years in the State of 

 Louisiana and throughout the United States; and in con- 

 clusion there are enumerated as deserving of study : 1. 

 Special articles of culture : cereals, roots, forage plants, 

 tobacco, sugar cane, and rice, with the adaptation of the 

 first mentioned three for culture in the Peninsula, ami the 

 remainder in the foreign dependencies of the country. 2. 

 Implements, apparatus, and machines for the improvement 

 ot culture, and subsequent preparations of the afore- 

 mentioned, according as the produce is required for the 

 market, or for agricultural reproduction. 3. Systems of 

 breeding and rearing cattle, and the best breeds for 

 draught, and for the production of flesh, wool, milk, and 

 leather. 4. The principal schools of agriculture, and 

 methods of instruction followed in these. 5. Works, maps, 

 and agricultural works of all kinds which might be of 

 benefit for Spain. G. An agricultural and pastural 

 iiketch of the United States. 



