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toward commerce and industry. Farming has become big business now, and is so closely related with industry that the two have become interrelated. This branch of your state government has seen many changes over the years since its birth in 1877. At that time, when it was created by action of the General Assembly, VDA was called the Department of Agriculture, Mining, and Manufacturing.) Despite the wide scope of its name, the first commissioners of agriculture worked with little in the way of funds and even less in equipment. The "mining and manufacturing" were dropped a few years later as other agencies took over these duties.
About the turn of the century, :St new. Junction was added to tpe' TDtepartment of Agriculture, that of immigration. An acute labor shortage had developed in the South following the ,War Between the States, and the exodus to the cities and westward had drained the
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