The USDA began publishing its annual Yearbook in the 1890s as a way to share agricultural research with farmers, scientists, and policymakers across the country. The illustrations produced for those reports were serious scientific work: detailed renderings of plant diseases, insects, and crop specimens drawn by staff illustrators and engraved for mass distribution. That combination of scientific purpose and careful draftsmanship gives these prints a precision that purely decorative work rarely achieves. All pieces shown here are period originals.