
          from the U.S. on account of his services
in the west, there may be some difficulty
in the way of his pay for other work for
the same party.

You have probably seen some of the
attacks which have been of late made
upon Mr. Brown attempting to prove his
unfitness for the position he now holds in
the agricultural department of the Patent
office. They doubtless spring from interested
motives, and not from a desire to advance
the art of agriculture. I know him
to be a very industrious and obliging man,
and have full confidence in his honesty
and his correct [desire?] to make the department,
with which he is connected, as
useful as possible. He does not profess to
be a man of science in the strict sense
of the term, but he has a large store of 
practical knowledge of much importance
in his present position and he is, [notably?]
willing but anxious, to call in the aid of the
first man of the country in the preparation of
the matter of the annual Report and in
making original investigations which
shall be of value to the husbandman.

I think the character of the Report 

        