Show Helping the thc Farmer The Department t 0 of Agriculture hn had its orl origin in In ISM when lIen the time commissioner of or II hilt patents t cuts nt began the time distribution of selected seeds In t 1554 1 54 an nn ent entomologist was employed ed The Tile next year car a n chemist and anti a a. a botanist botanist bot hot anist mere ere added to the staff an ana and anda a propagating garden begun heun This work was taken from the patent 11 by President nt Lincoln in ill and pl placed I under tinder III e I. I the time direction of Isaac Newton toll r of Pennsylvania anla as ns the first commissioner of f lure ture Durin During Cleveland's adminis administration In ht Norman J J. Colman time tile last commissioner loner became the first secretary 0 of n agriculture and a n member of or the tile Presidents President's cabinet |