Show ESTIMATED COST OF HAULING FREE SEEDS March M Postmaster General Cortelyou nan has h supplied Kepr Tawney fawney chairman of ot the tha committee on OU appropriations with wih a a memorandum a 11 as to the actual copt to the tho department ot of handling the furnished by the de do department of ot agriculture for tree fret dis distribution dil The Tho M postmaster general states as nearly nealy as 11 can cn be mated tho the cost coat of ot carrying a a a pound of ot this mall matter mater varies anIes ae from coin 6 r to 8 S Scents cents centa I have been Informed that time thu aggregate weight ot of Mid And pd seeds t by y the t department of or agriculture under frank frankIs Is pounds The Tho estimated num number number ber her of packages Is Ii Computing at the tha lowest estimate 5 6 cents a pound the tho coat cost of ot handling this matter mater Is U 34 WO Tho hl postmaster general says that while It Is Improbable any In additional clerks or carriers are employed ol olly ly lyon on account of this title distribution It I ic nevertheless that these 7 packages package clog th time the malls mails and take up the Iho time timE of at a n large number ot at clerks and carriers who ho might be other otherwise otherwise wise profitably employed |