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Department of Agriculture   /dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv ˈægrɪkˌəltʃər/   Listen
Department of Agriculture

noun
1.
The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862.  Synonyms: Agriculture, Agriculture Department, USDA.






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"Department of agriculture" Quotes from Famous Books



... exportation and importation of timber and other forest products, the probable supply for future wants, and the means best adapted for forest preservation. Five years later, the Division of Forestry was organized as a branch of the Department of Agriculture. It was established in order to carry on investigations about forestry and ...
— The School Book of Forestry • Charles Lathrop Pack

... to note that there is in the collection of the Department of Agriculture a specimen of Amphiscepa bivittata Say, which bears, in the position described above, a parasitic larva similar to that described by Mik. It left its victim and spun a white cocoon, but we failed to ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various

... error, and a plan was adopted which, though differing in many details from that proposed, was, in the main, based on the conclusion of the commission. The Interior department, the Geological Survey, and the Department of Agriculture all have ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... Secretary shaped a Federal Interdepartmental Task Force under Interior direction, in whose specialized sub-task forces were enlisted the skills available in the Corps of Engineers, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (where the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration was then located), and the various concerned bureaus and services of the Interior Department itself. ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... Department of Agriculture will be glad to advise with your committee chairmen on any matters in which they can lend assistance. Our home demonstration agents in different sections of the country can no doubt be helpful in advising as to the ...
— Better Homes in America • Mrs W.B. Meloney


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