Excerpt from Report Upon Cotton Insects: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture in Pursuance of an Act of Congress Approved June 19, 1878 In the Senate of the United States, March 3, 1879. The following resolution was agreed to by the Senate January 28, 1879, and concurred in by the House of Representatives March 3, 1879: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed 10,000 copies of the special report from the Department of Agriculture on the insects affecting the cotton plant, with the necessary illustrations, to be made by the Public Printer under the sanction of the Joint Committee on Public Printing, 5,000 of which shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, 3,000 for the use of the Senate, and 2,000 for the use of the Department of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.