Farmers' Bulletin Explained

Farmers’ Bulletin
Category:	Agriculture
Frequency:	Monthly
Publisher:	U.S. Department of Agriculture
Founder:	U.S. Government
Founded:	1889
Country:	United States
Based:	Washington, D.C.
Language:	English

Farmers' Bulletin was published by the United States Department of Agriculture with the first issue appearing in June 1889.^[1] The farm bulletins could be obtained upon the written request to a Member of Congress or to the United States Secretary of Agriculture. The agricultural circular would be sent complimentary to any address within the United States. The agricultural publication covered an extensive range of rural topics as related to agricultural science, agronomy, plant diseases, rural living, soil conservation, and sustainable agriculture.

Predecessor of Farmers' Bulletin

The Department of Agriculture was established upon the passage of H.R. 269 bill as enacted into law by Abraham Lincoln on May 15, 1862.^[2] In accordance with section three of the federal statute, the agriculture agency acquired the United States Patent office chemistry bureau.^[3] The Division of Chemistry was authorized as a federal supplemental organization of the Department of Agriculture upon the enactment of the United States agricultural H.R. 269 legislation.^{[4] [5]}

The Department of Agriculture Chemistry Division authored an agricultural bulletin first appearing in 1883.^[6] The agricultural chemistry publication sustained three decades of print production before being discontinued in 1913.^[7]

See also

	Harvey Washington Wiley
	Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
	National FFA Organization
	Neolithic Revolution
	Old Farmer's Almanac
	Rural economics
Farmers' Almanac	Rural flight
	United States National Agricultural Library

Agricultural Bulletin Archives

☆ Farmers' Bulletin Archive . Washington, D.C. . HathiTrust Digital Library . 1889 . United States Department of Agriculture.
☆ Farmers' Bulletin Archive . Washington, D.C. . HathiTrust Digital Library . 1889 . United States Department of Agriculture.
☆ Web site: Farmers' Bulletin (United States Department of Agriculture) . National Agricultural Library: FEDLINK - United States Federal Collection . Internet Archive . United States National Agricultural Library.
☆ Web site: Index to USDA Farmers' Bulletins . Miller . Ellen Kay . August 2002 . Washington, D.C. . USDA Agricultural Research Service - National Agricultural Library . United States Department of Agriculture . 2018-07-01 . 2016-07-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160730023242/http://pubs.nal.usda.gov/sites/pubs.nal.usda.gov/files/fb.htm . dead .
☆ Bureau of Chemistry Bulletin ~ 1883-1913 . Washington, D.C. . HathiTrust Digital Library . 165 no . United States Government Printing Office.
☆ Web site: U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry activities, ca. 1883-1912 . Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Record . 1883 . United States Library of Congress.

Reading Bibliography

• Web site: The United States Department of Agriculture, 1862-1912 . True . Alfred Charles . November 1912 . Internet Archive . Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations . 16316910.
• Web site: A History of Agricultural Education in the United States 1785-1925 . True . Alfred Charles . 1929 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Department of Agriculture . 6072321.
• Web site: A History of Agricultural Experimentation and Research in the United States, 1620-1925 . True . Alfred Charles . 1929 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Department of Agriculture . 71027382.
• Book: True, Alfred Charles . A History of Agricultural Experimentation and Research in the United States, 1607-1925 : including a History of the United States Department of Agriculture . 1937 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Department of Agriculture . 978-1334782831 . 983340378.
• Web site: Abraham Lincoln and Agriculture . Mintz, S. . McNeil, S. . 2018 . Digital History . Digital History Partners.

External links

• • United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook ~ 1888-1992 . Washington, D.C. . USDA Yearbook of Agriculture . United States Government Printing Office.
• New England Farmer ~ 1822-1840 . Boston, Massachusetts . New England Farmer, and Horticultural Registerjan. 30, 1839-June 26, 1844 . 70 v . Thomas W. Shepard. Fessenden . Thomas Green .
• Web site: An Act to Establish a Department of Agriculture, May 15, 1862 . Exhibitions ~ Legislative Highlights . Washington, D.C. . United States Capitol Visitor Center.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The What and Why of Agricultural Experiment Stations . June 1889 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Department of Agriculture.
2. Web site: H.R. 269: To Establish a Department of Agriculture . American Memory Century of Lawmaking . United States Library of Congress.
3. Web site: Department of Agriculture Act, 1862 - P.L. 37-72 . May 15, 1862 . 12 Stat. 387 - House Bill 269 . USLAW.Link.
4. The Story of the United States Patent and Trademark Office . Story of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . July 1981 . 8 . United States Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office. 2027/pst.000007412653.
5. Griesbach . R.J. . Camarota . Alex . November 2016 . Putting Down Roots at the Patent Office . Inventors Eye Newsletter . United States Patent and Trademark Office.
6. Web site: An Investigation of the Composition of American Wheat and Corn . Richardson . Clifford . 1883 . Chemical Division - Bulletin No. 1 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . United States Government Printing Office.
7. Web site: The Elimination and Toxicity of Caffein in Nephrectomized Rabbits . Salant . William . Rieger . John Benjamin . 1913 . Bureau of Chemistry - Bulletin No. 166 . Internet Archive . Washington, D.C. . U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry.