January 13, 1879
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th of June last, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to, send to the Senate certain reports on sheep husbandry, copies of the same, with accompanying papers, received from the Commissioner of Agriculture for this purpose, are herewith transmitted.
R.B. HAYES
Rutherford B. Hayes, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203536