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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. The pages are tanned, but clean. There is a name written on the front end paper. There is a Senator Wm Proxmire stamp on the top page edging. The cover has a few small soil spots and the corner tips are bent inward. The spine has a light lean. Illustrated. 496 pages.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Yellow cloth spine with pictorial cloth boards. The pages have a very few small scattered soil spots. There is a Compliments of Your Congressman stamp on the front end paper. There are small soil spots on the page edging. The cover has a few small soil spots. Illustrated. 940 pages.

Mass market. Zustand: Good. Paperback. Text contains underlining/marking. Covers show light edge wear. Previous owners name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. The lightly tanned pages have a very few small scattered soil spots. There are a few soil spots on the top page edging. Illustrated. 942 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 6 x 9 inches. xiii, 688 pages. Condition is Very Good; Very light wear to spine ends, light spotting on fore edge of text block, text and illustrations are very clean, binding is tight. STK.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xiv, [2], 496 pages. Illustrated endpaper, Footnotes. Illustrations. Maps. Tabular Data. Index. Decorative cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Among the sections addressed are: Houses, Furnishing, Equipment, Finances, Safeguards, Plants, Outdoors, Activities, Clothing, and Food. This book tells us, consumers all, many things about buying, using, or making food, clothing, household furnishing, and equipment; managing money, caring for yards, gardens, and houses; bettering communities, using leisure time; and staying healthy. This book reflects some, not all, of the many facets of the Department of Agriculture's work on behalf of consumers and homemakers. Many of the contributors to this book are in the Department or are connected with it, each writing from experience gained in the job, but others have been called upon for some chapters that enlarge the usefulness of the book and are within its scope. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is the federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, rural economic development, and food. It aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally. On May 15, 1862, Abraham Lincoln established the independent Department of Agriculture through the Morrill Act to be headed by a commissioner without Cabinet status. Staffed by only eight employees, the department was charged with conducting research and development related to "agriculture, rural development, aquaculture and human nutrition in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms". Agriculturalist Isaac Newton was appointed to be the first commissioner. Lincoln called it the "people's department", owing to the fact that over half of the nation at the time was directly or indirectly involved in agriculture or agribusiness. In 1868, the department moved into the new Department of Agriculture Building in Washington, designed by famed D.C. architect Adolf Cluss. Located on the National Mall between 12th Street and 14th SW, the department had offices for its staff and the entire width of the Mall up to B Street NW to plant and experiment with plants. In the 1880s, varied advocacy groups were lobbying for Cabinet representation. Business interests sought a Department of Commerce and Industry, and farmers tried to raise the Department of Agriculture to Cabinet rank. In 1887, the House of Representatives and Senate passed separate bills giving Cabinet status to the Department of Agriculture and Labor, but the bill was defeated in conference committee after farm interests objected to the addition of labor. Finally, in 1889 the Department of Agriculture was given cabinet-level status. In 1887, the Hatch Act provided for the federal funding of agricultural experiment stations in each state. The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 then funded cooperative extension services in each state to teach agriculture, home economics, and other subjects to the public. With these and similar provisions, the USDA reached out to every county of every state. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.