Mar. 1840.1 SENATE— No 36. 



Boston, M March, 1840. 

 To the Hon. Daniel P. King, 



President of the Senate of Massachusetts : 

 Sir, 



The Commissioner for the Agricultural Survey of the 

 State, has the honor to submit to the Senate a Re- 

 port on the Cultivation of Wheat in Massachusetts, pre- 

 pared in compliance with the order of the Legislature 

 of March 20, 1839, which is annexed. 



The duty would have been sooner executed, but the 

 Returns were not accessible to the Commissioner, until 

 a considerable time after the passage of the order ; and 

 the season afterwards being that of active duty abroad, 

 he was under the necessity of postponing the report. 

 The number of individual returns to be looked over, 

 amounting to nearly four thousand, have necessarily 

 occupied a long time. The subject being of great im- 

 portance, he has devoted to it much labor and inquiry. 



Though not within the terms of the order, yet the 

 Commissioner asks leave of the Senate to subjoin his 

 Report on the Culture of Silk in the State. The infor- 

 mation he proposes to give on this subject is of much 

 consequence. Knowing the importance of this subject, 

 and the impatience and curiosity of the public mind in 

 regard to it, the Commissioner travelled more than six- 

 teen hundred miles, the last autumn, that he might 



