A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with improving and maintaining farm income and developing and expanding markets for agricultural products. Through inspection and grading services it safeguards and insures standards of quality in food supply and production.
    

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An overview of the new dietary guidelines : MyPyramid.gov : steps to a healthier you / Wild Oats natural marketplace.

Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Frank N. Meyer : plant hunter in Asia / by Isabel Shipley Cunningham.

Investing in research : a proposal to strengthen the agricultural, food, and environmental system / Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

Biotechnology : Agriculture's regulatory system needs clarification : report to the Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives / United States General Accounting Office.

Facts about pasteurization of milk / U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

A wheel-chart (pie-chart), the seven sectors of which show seven different types of food which need to be combined in a balanced diet. Colour lithograph, 1943.

Food saving and sharing : telling how the older children of America may help save from famine their comrades in allied lands across the sea / prepared under the direction of the United States Food administration in coöperation with the United States Department of agriculture and the Bureau of education.

Farmers' bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents. / Department of Agriculture.

The chemical composition of American food materials / by W.O. Atwater and Chas. D. Woods.

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Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Farmers' bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Reports on the diseases of cattle in the United States made to the Commissioner of Agriculture, with accompanying documents. / Department of Agriculture.

The chemical composition of American food materials / by W.O. Atwater and Chas. D. Woods.