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History of Research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Research Service
Blue=USDA research accomplishment
Click on "more" to view related stories Hybrid corn allowed increases in production, more efficient use of applied fertilizer, and large-scale, mechanized harvesting. USDA scientists developed first hog cholera vaccines.
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1880s 1880 Of gainfully employed persons, 49 percent were engaged in agriculture. Evaporated milk developed. 1881 1882 Tubercle bacillus isolated by German bacteriologist. USDA scientist one of the first to chemically analyze it. 1883 1884 Bureau of Animal Industry established. 1885 1886 1887 1888 Refrigerated boxcars made first long-haul shipments of produce and meat. Vedalia beetles imported from Australia to control fluted scale on citrus, the first successful biological control program of a crop pest. (more) 1889 Controlled cottony cushion scale on citrus in California using biological control. (more) |
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