REPORT UPON FORESTRY, PREPARED, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, IN Library BY FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. VOLUME II WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Sc 6-77 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN RESPONSE TO a Resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting a Report from the Commissioner of Agriculture on the subject of Forestry. FEBRUARY 5, 1880.-Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered to be printed. To the House of Representatives : In reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture "to forward any facts or statistics in his office on the subject of Forestry not heretofore published from his department," the accompanying report received from the Commissioner for this purpose is herewith transmitted. EXECUTIVE MANSION, R. B. HAYES. February 5, 1880. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, February 4, 1880. SIR: In response to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, requesting me to forward any facts or statistics in my office on the subject of Forestry not heretofore published from this Department, I have the honor to transmit herewith a report upon that subject by Dr. Franklin B. Hough, of Lowville, N. Y. Very respectfully, The PRESIDENT. WM. G. LE DUC, Commissioner of Agriculture. III |