Calling your attention to the inclosed advance sheets of an article which will by and by appear in the Popular Science Monthly, I beg to put to you certain questions. If the matter interests you, will you kindly fill up the blanks below and let me have your replies within the present month of October, to the end that I may compile them and give a digest of the results? I shall state in the article that I am indebted to you and others for the information submitted. Area of the State of....................... square miles. 1. What proportion of this area do you believe to be arable land of fair quality, including pasture that might be put under the plow? Answer ................... square miles. 2. What proportion is now in forest or mountain sections which may not be available for agriculture for a long period? Answer ................... square miles. 3. What has been done or may be done by irrigation? ........................................................................... ........................................................................... ............................ 4. What proportion of the arable land above measured should you consider suitable to the production of wheat under general conditions such as are given in the text, say, a stable price of one dollar per bushel in London? Answer ................... square miles. 5. To what extent, in your judgment, is wheat becoming the cash or surplus crop of a varied system of agriculture as distinct from the methods which prevail in the opening of new lands of cropping with wheat for a term of years? .................................................................... What further remarks can you add which will enable me to elucidate this case, to complete the article and to convey a true impression of the facts to English readers? .................................................................... .................................................................... .................................................................... Your assistance in this matter will be gratefully received. Respectfully submitted, EDWARD ATKINSON. To this circular I received twenty-four detailed replies, containing statistics mostly very complete; also many suggestive letters, in every case giving full support to the general views which I had submitted in the proof sheets. It has been impossible for me to give individual credit within the limits of a magazine article to the gentlemen who have so fully supplied the data. Space will only permit me to submit a digest of the more important facts in a table derived from these replies: