Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Circular from the Agricultural Department. [ARTICLE]

Circular from the Agricultural Department.

The Department of Agriculture has issued the following circular: The Agricultural Department of the United States desires to communicate to its correspondents the following information : 1. The object and purpose of the department is to procure the best and most approved seeds which can be obtained in this or any other country, and so distribute them that they may be introduced into all parts of the United States to which they are respectively adapted. 2. Vegetable garden seed is put up in packages and varieties, having a reference only to the climate and soil to which They are to be sent. Any designation of these seeds by individuals is useless, because they are diready put up, except the general one of flower or vWetablqfl or particular field seed, suclyTs Jjpjift oats, barley, spring or fall wheat,<aEtfmr-, ticulaT kind of gras** 3. The department does not profess to have every variety of seed for distribution to supply the wants' of any per&m, but only such as are particularly userril, and which cannot readily be obtained elsewhere. 4. The department often receives from five to fifty letters from one place, and sometimes written by one hand. These are not responded to. 5. The department has its own agents for distribution, therefore lists sentfhere are not attended to. 6. Money or stamps should not be sent to the department for any purpose whatever. It has no authority to receive them. 7. No seed is delivered at the department —but only by mail. Seed sent, in pursuance of the special appropriation of Congress, to the grasshopper districts has not been subject to these rules. Correspondents should save the products of seed sent them; for future use. Frederick Watts,. Commitsioner of Agriculture.