Agriculture Committee hearings
In an effort to regulate the national food supply, the House Agriculture Committee held hearings in the spring and summer of 1906 on the Pure Food and Drug Act and...
CCC timber worker
This undated image shows a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) timber worker. The CCC was one of the early public works agencies created by President Franklin D....
Cash crop in the field
This is an August 1917 photograph of a tobacco field in rural Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina.
Crop of flue-cured tobacco
This scene in rural Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina, shows the tobacco crop almost ready for harvest. Flue-cured tobacco processing is preferred to air-cured...
Dust storm in South Dakota
This photograph, taken in 1936, shows a dust storm blowing in South Dakota. The Department of Agriculture used such images to illustrate the environmental and land...
Economy of beer
In April 1917 the California Hop Growers telegrammed Congressman John Edward Raker objecting, on economic grounds, to possible legislation banning the brewing of beer...
Saving wheat, corn, rye, and barley
In May 1917 the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wrote to Congressman John M. Morin urging prohibition to conserve agricultural products. During World War I,...