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Show j...w.v..,...J...v.w... w.v.-..-...-YVTlfc fc II -m USDA'S BIRTHDAY . . . The United States department of agriculture celebrates its 84th birthday, May 15. The act to establish the department depart-ment was approved May 15, 1862. Isaac Newton, right, served as the first head of the department. He died July 19, 1867, the result of a sunstroke suffered while working in experimental plot. Left, Clinton P. Anderson, the present secretary of agriculture. 1 ....K..-vMMwvvmvwwN.uu,,IJUUWJWWWA |