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CHAPTER XIV.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
I visited several experimental farms under the management of the
Department of Agriculture and was informed by the superintendent of the
farm that the Government had a small farm of six hundred and forty acres
in every district in which was situated the District High School where
boys and girls were taught how to farm and to raise stock and poultry to
the best advantage, and also large farms at every military reservation
where persons convicted of crime were taught how to become useful
members of society. The Government raised only thoroughbred stock and
poultry on the farms, and the service of the males was given free to
every farmer that desired to improve his stock.
As Eurasia covered a vast extent of country, enjoying every variety of
climate, the Department of Agriculture had all almost unlimited field to
work in and was yearly producing some new variety of plants that
enriched the labors of the husbandman as well as discovering remedies to
successfully combat parasites and other enemies of the fruitraiser and
horticulturist as well as the farmer. District fairs were held once a
year in every district at which prizes were given to the best butter and
cheese makers and to the best breeder of every kind of live stock and
poultry raised in the district, but no stock or poultry imported into
the district could receive a prize.
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