Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 24
Author: Alice Fray Nelson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-04
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780666902009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 24: June 1960 This month the Foreign Agricultural Service observes its 30th anniversary, and in 2 years the us. Department of Agriculture will mark its first century of service to the American farmer. Comparatively speaking both count themselves as oldsters in the Government. But as Wayne D. Rasmussen, the Depart ment's historian, points out in his excellent history of our farm exports (see opposite page), American agriculture was in business nearly 250 years before the Congress set up an agricultural agency. As early as 1613 the colonies were shipping tobacco abroad. This was followed by cotton, later by wheat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
