The Agriculture Building

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EER THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C

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CHROME TRADE 5345 G&S N.Y. Posl Registered 217 85 PUBLISHED BY THE UNION NEWS COMPANY NEW YORK. THE DEPARTMENT OF AG- RICULTURE, Washington, D. C. The activities of this Department cost the Government about $16,- 000,000. annually and 17,000,000 copies of 1,200 different publica- tions are issued by. it during a year. Its bureaus of Chemistry Weather, Animal Industry, Plant Industry, Soils, Statistics, Ento- mology, Biological Survey, and Forest Service are of inestimable value to the nation, as evidenced by the fact the Bureau of Animal Industry alone inspects seven bil- lion pounds of meat a year.