. Abraham Lincoln's vocations. asstill being done with horse poweralthough an impressive start hadbeen made in mechanization. But itstill took about as long to plow a I have caused the department ofagriculture of the United States tobe organized to carry out the act ofcongress of May 15th last. The com-missioner informs me that withinthe period of a few months ttiis de-partment has established an exten-sive system of correspondence andexchanges, both at home andabroad, which promise to effecthighly beneficial results in the de-velopment of a current knowledgeof recent improvements of agricul-t
. Abraham Lincoln's vocations. asstill being done with horse poweralthough an impressive start hadbeen made in mechanization. But itstill took about as long to plow a I have caused the department ofagriculture of the United States tobe organized to carry out the act ofcongress of May 15th last. The com-missioner informs me that withinthe period of a few months ttiis de-partment has established an exten-sive system of correspondence andexchanges, both at home andabroad, which promise to effecthighly beneficial results in the de-velopment of a current knowledgeof recent improvements of agricul-ture, in the introduction of newproducts and in the collection of theagricultural statistics of the differ-ent states. Also it will be preparedto distribute largely seeds, cereals,plants and cuttings, and has alreadypublished and liberally diffusedmuch valuable information. The department of agriculturethus played its part in the Civilwar. Its services to the nationsfarmers have continued to farm home today feels its. ILLINOIS HOMESTEAD This is the last farm home buUt by Thomas Lincoln father of the president. Abe Lincoln, then a giovni man,helped his father build the house and visited it often. It is in Coles county,ucar Charleston. field, plant a crop and cultivate itas it had in George Washingtonstime. This was particularly true inthe pioneer areas of settlement inthe West. Reaper Coming into Use. The early 1830s had witnessed theintroduction of the reaper but itsuse was not universal when theCivil war broke out. Farmers hadbeen using the steel plow for about25 years. The modern fertilizer in-dustry was not established until1850, after scientific experiments inEurope had demonstrated the valueof plant feeding. By 1860 productionhad reached only 20,000 tons. Lastyears farmers used more than12,000,000 tons. Food production was just as im-portant in the Civil war as InWorld Wars I and II. Lincoln andhis advisers sought measures bothnear and long range that wouldstreng
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