ME S S .A- G E . 



To the Senate and House of Representatives: 



In accordance with a provision in the act making appropriations for the Department ot 

 Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30 ? 1899, 1 transmit herewith a report of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture "upon the forestry investigations and work of the Department of Agriculture." 



William McKinley. 

 Executive Mansion, January 27, 1899. 



