AGRICULTURE, UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF, an executive department of the Federal Government, the chief of which, the Secretary of Agriculture, is a member of the Cabinet. It was formed in 1889, under the administration of Grover Cleveland, its first Secretary being Norman J. Colman, of Mi ouri. As specified in the statute creating it, its purpose is ‘to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word.’ The Secretary also has under his jurisdiction the supervision of all public busine relating to agriculture and the national forest reserves; he has the power to exclude the importation into the country of noxious or diseased animals and the enforcement of the laws forbidding the inter-state transportation of game killed in violation of the various state laws. The Secretary in 1923 was. Henry ©. Wallace, of low a. The appropriation for the activities of the Department in 1922 were nearly $24,000,000. E.), ancient town, Sicily; founded by quickly rose in importance; had many famous buildings, including temple to Jupiter, of which ruins remain; ruled ished 472 B.C. when democracy established; destroyed by Carthage, 405 B.C.; recolonized by ‘Timoleon, 338 B.C.; sacked by Romans, 261, Cart hag in i ans, 225: again by Romans, 210 B.C.; henceforth subject of Rome; held by Saracens, 828-1086; birthplace of Empedocles;