. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ning 15,000 Birds Stomachs—Vindicating the Much-Maligned Crow — Controlling the Spread of Weeds — Poisonous Plants— Adulterated Seeds — Seeds of New and Choice Varieties — Testingthe Purity of Seeds—Free Distribution of Seeds — How the Finestand Purest Seeds May Be Had for Xothing—Grea
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ning 15,000 Birds Stomachs—Vindicating the Much-Maligned Crow — Controlling the Spread of Weeds — Poisonous Plants— Adulterated Seeds — Seeds of New and Choice Varieties — Testingthe Purity of Seeds—Free Distribution of Seeds — How the Finestand Purest Seeds May Be Had for Xothing—Great Opposition ofPrivate Seedsmen — Diseases of Plants — Something About Grasses —The Agricultural Museum. IIATEVER attention the government paid tothe great agricultural interests of the countryprevious to 1862 emanated from the Patent-Office, where the commissioners distributed,free of charge, such seeds as they could on a yearlyappropriation of $1,000. In 1862 a Department ofAgriculture was organized, but it was regarded as an inde-pendent bureau merely, and there was no thought of makingthe Commissioner of Agriculture a member of the was the action of the German government that raisedthe Commissioner to the dignity of a member of the Presi-dents official family. (386). THE INSPECTION OF EXPORTS. 38? During the 80s Germany adopted the policy of exclud-ing American imports so far as possible, for the Germanpeople were always buying more of the United States,especially in the way of meats, than we were buying ofGermany, with the result that the latter country was com-pelled to pay us annually a large amount of gold at the verytime it was straining its credit to buy the precious metal toestablish a gold standard. A great hue and cry arose inGermany against American meat, on the ground that it wasdiseased, and regulations were adopted which practicallyexcluded it. The only way for Uncle Sam to meet thisunderhanded discrimination was to institute
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