USSEY INSTITUTION

FEB 22 1909

LIBRARY

Official test 30 lbs. 15 oz. at 21⁄2 years.
NASHVILLE, TENN

BIENNIAL REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER

-OF-

Agriculture, Statistics and Mines

OF THE

STATE OF TENNESSEE.

A. J. MCWHIRTER,

COMMISSIONER.

ACCOMPANIED BY REPORTS OF

DR. J. M. SAFFORD, STATE GEOLOGIST, ON THE AGRICULTURAL GEOLOGY OF
THE STATE; JO. C. Guild, Inspector of Mines; PROF. E. W. Doran,
ASSISTANT ENTOMOLOGIST; PROF. J. W. GLENN, DIRECTOR OF
EXPERIMENTAL STATION, AND C. W. CHARLTON, ASSISTANT
COMMISSIONER FOR EAST TENNESSEE; ALSO REPORTS

OF COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIRS; EAST TENNES-
SEE FARMERS' CONVENTIONS, 1885 AND 1886,

AND INTERSTATE AGRICULTURAL AND

IMMIGRATION CONVENTION, HELD AT

JACKSON, FEBRUARY, 1886.

NASHVILLE, TENN.:

MARSHALL & BRUCE, PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

1887.