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/dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv ˈægrɪkˌəltʃər/ Listen

Department of Agriculture

noun

The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862. Synonyms: Agriculture, Agriculture Department, USDA.

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... Bureau of Animal Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture.) "Of all known methods of treating milk fever, the injection of sterile atmospheric air into the udder is by far the most simple and practicable as well as the most efficacious and harmless one at our disposal." Pratts Milk Fever Outfit for air treatment should always be kept on hand. ...

— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.

... to markets, fairs, transit and slaughter houses; for securing the providing of water and food; and for cleansing and disinfecting vessels, vehicles and pens. As regards Ireland the powers were vested in the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council, and on the establishment of the Department of Agriculture for Ireland, in the year 1899, were ...

— Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland • Joseph Tatlow

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