Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture: For the Year 1874
Sir: It gives me great satisfaction to believe that the operations of this Department for the past year have served to awaken and greatly increase a spirit of improvement in the agricultural interest of the country. A territory so extensive as ours, possessing every variety of fertility and every diversity of climate which are congenial to the productions of the earth, and with a population whose habits, manners, customs, enjoyments, and wants differ as much as the climate in which they live or the countries from which they come, requires a supervision which shall adapt itself as much as possible to the appreciation of their condition, meet their wants, and make that provision for their necessities and improvement which their segregated situation will not allow that they should make for themselves. The isolated situation of the farmers affords them few opportunities of keeping step with the rapid march of the world's progress, and any aid which can be given them by this Department is as strongly marked as it is highly appreciated. For their benefit it has been the province of this Departments seek for the best seeds which the world can supply, to study their adaptation to the soil and climate of the country, and to put them into the hands of those who will make them profitable to the sections where they respectively reside. When any discovery is made in tho method of cultivation or propagation, it is promptly communicated through the medium of a monthly publication. Many persons are always engaged in this and other countries in making experiments to improve seeds and plants as well as new methods of their cultivation, whereby the work of tho farmer may be made more profitable; these are anxiously watched, and their results promptly communicated, and, when successful, availed of by extensive distribution. The counsel, advice, and information of the Department are cheerfully given to all persons who apply for them on any subject which pertains to the business of agriculture.
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