Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Always Something New: A Cavalcade of Scientific Discovery
Congress in 1938, desperate to find ways to dispose of surplus crops and end a chronic farm depression, authorized the us. Department of Agriculture to build and staff four regional research laboratories. Their purpose would be to find new chemical and technical uses and markets for farm commodities, particularly those, like wheat, cotton, milk, and potatoes, with regular or seasonal surpluses.
Authorization for the laboratories formed a relatively small part of the omnibus 1938 legislation - the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. The law was enthusiastically described by Secre tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace as a new charter of economic freedom for farmers. It provided for marketing controls, acreage allotments, soil conservation, and loans and crop insurance. One detailed history of the legislation, under the subhead of other provisions of the 1938 Act, devotes only half a sentence to the creation of the regional research laboratories.
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