Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . M^imM^mmM rl. ^HWB^toI. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUILDING. gence, and stimulate the national enterprise. One of these beneficial,and it may be called stimulating, departments is the Department ofAgriculture, which is charged with collecting and diffusing the mostreliable information upon agriculture and the many important indus-tries which cluster around it, and upon the successf
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . M^imM^mmM rl. ^HWB^toI. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUILDING. gence, and stimulate the national enterprise. One of these beneficial,and it may be called stimulating, departments is the Department ofAgriculture, which is charged with collecting and diffusing the mostreliable information upon agriculture and the many important indus-tries which cluster around it, and upon the successful prosecution ofwhich the countrys prosperity depends. It is not a costly department,as compared with other branches of the public service, its expendi-ture rarely exceeding $400,000 a year, but its work is of incalcu-lable value. It has diffused definite information concerning the bestmethods to be employed in special branches of agriculture ; it has toldthe farmers how to protect themselves from pestiferous insects, andhow to guard against the diseases of farm animals ; it has supplied thebest seeds for vegetables and flowers, for cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco, 228 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. medicinal herbs, hemp, flax, and jute; it
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