The Agricultural Research Service
By: [by] Ernest G. Moore.
Series: Praeger library of U.S. Government departments and agencies
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: United States Agricultural Research Service
Description: Presents the story of the rise of the Agricultural Research Service and its dual functionality as a research and a regulatory organization. Thousands of everyday items--drip-dry cottons, frozen orange juice, aerosol dispensers for hair spray and shaving cream--are byproducts of its research. The ARS also intercepts a diseased plant or animal at the U.S. border about once every six minutes.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 237-239.