Cabbage. Should be well and early started in a hot-bed, and planted out when hard and strong. Lettuce.-Either broadcast or in rows, thin. Cauliflower.-Same as cabbages. Beets. In rows three feet apart; sowed thin and weeded out to eight or ten inches apart. Onions.-Sowed thin in rows three feet apart; and cultivated seedlings planted in rows three feet apart, and four inches from each other. NOTE.-Everything needs all the time it can get to grow in. The seed should, therefore, be sowed very thin, watered well until the seed comes up, and then weeded out early to give it plenty of room to grow. When the plants are left thick, they all run to heads, and when weeded. out late they do not have time to grow. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. Jos. S. WILSON, F. V. HAYDEN, U. S. Geologist. Commissioner General Land Office. No. 1.-Tabular statement showing the number of acres of public lands surveyed in the following land States and Territories up to June 30, 1867, during the last fiscal year, and the total of the public lands surveyed up to June 30, remaining unsurveyed within the same. Area of the land States and Territories. 1868; also the total area of the public domain DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, General Land Office, November 5, 1868. * Of which 1,944,584 acres are Osage lands west of Arkansas river, ceded in trust to the United States treaty of September 29, 1865, U. S. Laws, vol. 14, page 688, and 3,922 acres being part of Fort Riley mili tary reservation, granted to the Republican River Bridge Company, per joint resolution of Congress, approved March 2, 1867, U. S. Laws, vol. 14, page 573. JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner. No. 2.-Statement of public lands sold, of cash and bounty-land scrip received therefor, number section of said act; also of land located with scrip under the Agricultural College and Mech of, and statement of incidental expenses thereon, in the first half of the fiscal year, commencing |