...Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established at the seat of government...United States a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States...

...the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established at the seat of government...of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most...

...enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby established at the seat of Government...of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most...

...this country. Evidence is found in the organic act of the Department of Agriculture, which states that "the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most...

...1862. In The Beginning On May 15, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing "at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture." The establishment of the Department was the result of a long series of changes and improvements in American...

...dissemination or handling of scientific information. From Organic Act of May 15, 1862 : "Section 1: ...the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most...

...Department. There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most...

...Department. There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United Stales useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most...

...Department. There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most...

...the American individual. When the Department was established on May 15, 1862, the law read in part "...there is hereby established at the seat of Government...of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most...