Yearbooks of Agriculture

 




Reports of the Agriculture Department to congress of the United States of America

The books are all bookmarked for hemp or cannabis….of course “hemp history”   There are many other very interesting articles and reports in these books also besides hemp, since they are online it is very easy to read about farming history. 

This is the link to the whole list I created on Google Docs --

 
I picked out some of the ones which are interesting and put them in here. When you click on the link to the book you may have to “click” view all to see the bookmarks pages.

Department of Agriculture -  USDA was……
Founded in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act of Congress establishing the United States Department of Agriculture.
https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/history
Article about the Department of Agriculture from Encyclopedia.com 

National Agricultural Library
https://www.nal.usda.gov/main/

U. S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Fiber Investigations
In the late 19th and early 20th century an office was created to investigate various vegetable fiber sources which of course included hemp. The office was created mainly because the US was importing so much fiber and we were looking for ways to keep the money in the United States.
There were 2 gentlemen heading up these efforts which produced multiple reports on various vegetable fibers and uses, Charles Richards Dodge and Lyster Hoxie Dewey.

This is just an interesting page… about plant fiber…. 

https://specialcollections.nal.usda.gov/usda-office-fiber-plant-investigations-collection
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Charles Richards Dodge, Web
1879, Pg 497, Vegetable fiber, pg 537 Cannabis
1890, Pg 463, Hemp, for twine production
1891, Pg 55, Pg 417, Report on Sisal Hemp
1892, Pg 360, Sisal Hemp and other fiber plants
1893, Pg 14 Hemp in Nebraska vs Kentucky
1895, Pg 215, Hemp Culture
1897, Pg 224, Vegetable fiber including hemp

Lyster Hoxie Dewey, Website, Wiki
1901, Pg 541, The Hemp Industry in the United States
1903, Pg 392, report  pg 387, Principle Commercial Plant Fiber
1911, Pg 193, Fibers Used in Binder Twine
1913, Pg 283, Hemp
1926, Pg 358, Hemp Varieties of Improved Type are Result of Selection
1927, Pg 358, Hemp Varieties of Improved Type are Result of Selection ?
1931, Pg 285, Hemp fiber losing ground despite valuable properties


Other Highlights

1847 - 3 reports, one on hemp break, stats on planting in USA and report on Germany

1848 - pg 574, East Indian hemp providing the best fiber along with intoxicating properties

1849 - pg 138, hemp grown in Virginia on the same land for 36 years, with no added fertilizer, also 3 other reports

1855 - Pg 238, Flax and Hemp Culture in Russia


1859 - Pg 386, planting methods affect bast fiber produced in vegetable fiber plants.

1861 - Pg 83, The Culture and Manufacture of Flax and Hemp, O.S. Levitt

1862 - Pg 3, An Act to establish the Department of Agriculture


1863/64 - pg 91, Hemp Culture

1870 - pg 187, Making Churras (haschisch)

1873 - pg 372, Hemp in Japan

1876 - Pg 286, process of adding biochar to the soil, in Turin, Italy - called half manuring

1887 - Pg 80, Planting strips of different plants around gardens to detract insects - hemp

1889 - Pg 46, Textile Fiber Production, Edwin Willits

1893 - Pg 28, An important step in Hemp Culture, processing costs

1895 - Pg 198, report about oil seed plants, Gilbert H. Hicks

1897 - Pg 33, Hemp and Ramie Processing Machines

1898 - Pg 677, table of rope strength for hemp

1905 - Pg 377, The Effect of Inbreeding in Plants, A.D. Shamel

1908 - Pg 261, Suitable Paper for Permanent Documents, F.P. Veitch

1910 - Pg 329,  The Utilization of Plant Crops in Papermaking, Charles J. Brand

1912 - Pg 98, hemp used for weed control, Wisconsin

1917 - Pg 169, Production of Drug-Plant Crops in the United States, W.W. Stockberger

1931 - Pg 419, Paper industry concerns farmer as raw material producer and consumer, F.P. Veitch

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