Excerpt from 1962: Centennial Year of the United States Department of Agriculture The nation was approaching the maturity Washington mentioned. It was growing in population, expanding westward, developing industry, building railroads, competing in new markets. Agriculture also was changing - from a subsistence type of farming with most of the food and fiber processed on the farm to a commercial type of farming. The new textile. Industry was taking weaving from the home. Agriculture also had new tools - the steelyellow fever, malaria, and other insect - borne diseases of humans. In recent years, Depart ment research developed mass-production methods for penicillin, and created the blood plasma extender Dextran and other medical products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.