Vegetable and flower seeds, grass seeds, plants, trees, bulbs, and grape-vines are distributed in the department through the Senators, members, and delegates of Congress. By this means the best varieties of the vegetable kingdom are carried throughout the United States. During the coming year the country will be more carefully districted, and only such seeds and plants as have been thoroughly acclimated will be sent to the several districts. Members of Congress from cities exchange their quota of vegetable and crop seeds for flower seeds, thus leaving more of the former for members with a farming constituency. The following statement shows the amounts of seeds, bulbs, plants, and trees, so far as the allotments have been made, for a recent fiscal year: Each Senator, member, and delegate will receive— _Vegetable Seed_ 12,000 packages, 5 papers each. _Novelties Vegetable Seed_ 500 packages, 5 papers each. _Flower Seed_ 500 packages, 5 papers each. _Tobacco Seed_ 110 packages, 5 papers each to districts growing tobacco. _Cotton Seed_ 70 packages, 1 peck each, to districts growing cotton. _Lawn Grass Seed_ 30 packages. _Forage Crop Seed_ Allotment not yet made. _Sorghum Seed_ Allotment not yet made. _Sugar Beet Seed_ Allotment not yet made. _Bulbs_ 10 boxes, 35 bulbs each; or 20 boxes, 17 bulbs each. _Grape-vines_ 8 packages, 5 vines each. _Strawberry Plants_ 10 packages, 15 plants each. _Trees_ 20 packages, 5 trees each. For seed distributed alone the government appropriates $270,000. Think of the beneficence of that! The rarest and best seeds that money can buy will be planted in every State and Territory of this country. Experts are continually sent abroad to find new cereals, fruits trees, animals, and flowers. The department has at least one correspondent in every county of the United States through whom the statistics on acreage, quality of crops, and success of experiments are reported at stated times. All questions pertaining to farming are answered by this department. If a man desires to buy a farm in Kansas or Alaska, a portion of the country of which he knows little, the department will tell him of the climate, the crops likely to be remunerative, and the obstacles of soil or climate to overcome. A chemist will analyze the soil for him, tell him what it contains, and what it needs to produce certain crops. An entomologist will tell him the insects prevalent which may destroy his crops. The scientist will also tell him how to destroy the inserts, what birds to encourage and what to banish.