@article{Baker:316027,
      recid = {316027},
      author = {Baker, Gladys L. and Rasmussen, Wayne D. and Wiser, Vivian  and Porter, Jane M.},
      title = {Century of Service:  The First 100 Years of the United  States Department of Agriculture},
      address = {1963-02},
      number = {1485-2021-3116},
      pages = {582},
      year = {1963},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report Foreword:  Agriculture in the  United States has progressed from an economy of scarcity to  an economy of abundance in the space of a hundred years.   This profound change may be measured in a number of ways.   For example, less than 9 percent of our labor force is  engaged in agriculture today, as compared with 20 to 40  percent in much of Western Europe, over 45 percent in the  Soviet Union, and 70 to 80 percent in some parts of the  world.  Agriculture has contributed labor and capital to  the other parts of the American economy, and has been a  major force in our economic growth.  Three laws adopted by  this Nation in 1862—the act creating the Department of  Agriculture, the Homestead Act, and the Morrill Land Grant  College Act—have helped the American farmer make invaluable  contributions to our agricultural productivity.   Illustrations of contributions by the Department of  Agriculture appear in After A Hundred Years: The Yearbook  of Agriculture 1962.  Other examples appear in this volume.   However, the basic purpose of this history is to outline  the Department's organizational development and its  response to changing conditions—national and international,  scientific and economic.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/316027},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.316027},
}