Department of Agriculture Library

U. S. Department of Agriculture Library, New Orleans Branch, New Orleans, La. 

The numbers of kinds of major crops have been few, and the records of crop yields have become more reliable only in the last few centuries. We use what we have been able to find in the libraries of the Department of Agriculture at the Hague, Holland, in the British Department of Agriculture, London, and in the much less lengthy records in the United States. 

Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and its successors. Special mention should be made of Theodore J. Grant and E. P. Imle, who, as directors of the regional rubber research station in Turrialba, have had much to do with the success of re-establishing rubber as a crop in the Western Hemisphere, and J. B. Carpenter, recently rubber pathologist at that station. Library facilities and reports of experimental work of the station were freely opened at all times. 

United States Department of Agriculture (2002) Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration Federal Grain Inspection Service Directive 91812 2 7-02 (http //wwwusdagov/ gipsa/reference-library/directives/... 

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Available http //www.usda.gov/gipsa/reference-library/brochures/soyinsepction.pfd. 

A government pubhcation which is a model of a useful index to technical material prepared both economically and quickly is the Department of Agriculture s Bibliography of Agriculture. It is issued monthly and is as comprehensive as its editors know how to make it. The February 1950 issue contains approximately 8000 different entries. An index is compiled annually in December. The printed publications of the Department of Agriculture which are listed in the bibliography are usually available in limited supply for free distribution, and photoprint or microfilm copies of any publication listed may be obtained from the Library of the Department of Agriculture. 

SOURCE Modified from United States Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Library. Washington DC (11). 

II. Anonymous. Dietary Reference Intakes Recoimnended Intakes for Individuals. United States Department of Agriculture-National Agriculture Library. Washington, DC. 2002 http //healthymeals.nal.usda.gov... 

Mwesigwa, T.W. 1995. Sweetpotato consumption levels and patterns in urban household with particular reference to Kampala city. B.Sc. Thesis, available at Library, Department of Agriculture, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 

Source From U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Nutrient Data Lab, National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, 2006, Published online at http //www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/cgi-bin/list nut edit.pl (accessed June 27, 2006). 

United States Department of Agriculture. Livestock Slaughter 2011 Summary. April 2012. http //usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/current/ LiveSlauSu/LiveSlauSu-04-23-2012.pdf, downloaded April 2012. 

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Nutrient Data Laboratory, Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and Information Systems Division of the National Agricultural Library 2011. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes a wide range of material, much of it of interest to chemists, in its Technical Bulletins, Production Research Reports, Utilization Research Reports, Miscellaneous Publications, and Yearbooks. New material is listed in the Monthly List of Publications and Motion Pictures. The Bibliography of Agriculture is a monthly guide to world literature based on accessions to the Department s library. Each issue has an author index, and there are annual cumulative author and subject indexes. The Department also issues a List of Available Publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

The author wishes to thank his students and colleagues (especially the Head of the Chemistry and Soil Science Department, A. Robin Robinson) at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for their moral support. Also, the help and assistance of the science staff at the Killam Library at Dalhousie University is greatly appreciated. Finally, I would especially like to thank my wife, Niki Hoyle, for all her help and encouragement and for just being there when it mattered. 

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