. Abraham Lincoln's vocations. ture. The administration threw itsweight behind three major bills andwithin a year they had become thelaw of the land. They were: tlie actestablishing the U. S. departmentof agriculture; the land grant col-lege act to which the nations farm-ers today owe the existence of thefar-flung system of agricultural col-leges in every state of the union,and the homestead act. Lincoln had advocated the estab-lishment of a department of agricul-ture in his first message to con-gress, in December, 1861. Then hehad said: Agriculture, confessedly the larg-est interest of the na
. Abraham Lincoln's vocations. ture. The administration threw itsweight behind three major bills andwithin a year they had become thelaw of the land. They were: tlie actestablishing the U. S. departmentof agriculture; the land grant col-lege act to which the nations farm-ers today owe the existence of thefar-flung system of agricultural col-leges in every state of the union,and the homestead act. Lincoln had advocated the estab-lishment of a department of agricul-ture in his first message to con-gress, in December, 1861. Then hehad said: Agriculture, confessedly the larg-est interest of the nation, has not adepartment nor a bureau, but aclerkship only. While it is importantthat this great interest is so inde-pendent in its nature as not to havedemanded or extorted more from thegovernment, I respectfully ask con-gress to consider whether somethingmore cannot voluntarily be givenwith general advantage. By the time he delivered his sec-ond annual message, the depart-ment had been created and Lincolnwas able to report:. LINCOLN VIRGINIA HOMESTEAD The incestral home of Abn ham Lincoln in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia lohn Lincoln greatgrandfather of the martyred president, built the original house. Thomasl^incoln, father of Abe, was born here before tlic family moved to Kentucky. benefits. Farmers everywhere areassisted by county agents in im-proving their tillage methods, test-ing their soil to determine plant foodneeds, so as to increase the outputand quality of their crops. The land grant college act or the ,Morrill act, signed by PresidentLincoln on July 2. 1862, marked amilestone in the development of sci-entific agriculture. The act gave toeach state as many times 30,000acit:£> ui public iaad as ii naa sena-tors and representatives — this landto provide funds for the establish-ment and support of a collegeof agriculture and mechanicalarts. Today the state agricultural col-leges which Lincolns administra-tion helped to create are one of thefarmers greatest al
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