Deparment of Agriculture for June 30, |
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... region with reproductions of the standards . The interest in , and approval of , the Official Cotton Standards is not confined to this country . This is shown by the fact that the Rotterdam Cotton Exchange has adopted them . As a result ...
... region with reproductions of the standards . The interest in , and approval of , the Official Cotton Standards is not confined to this country . This is shown by the fact that the Rotterdam Cotton Exchange has adopted them . As a result ...
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... region of greatest prevalence being from New York to Illinois . After July 1 , 1915 , the disease occurred only in Illinois , Massa- chusetts , New York , Indiana , and Minnesota . Before the end of August it had been eradicated from ...
... region of greatest prevalence being from New York to Illinois . After July 1 , 1915 , the disease occurred only in Illinois , Massa- chusetts , New York , Indiana , and Minnesota . Before the end of August it had been eradicated from ...
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... region . At first the opposition of the local people was almost unanimous . Even the fact that the tick is the carrier of splenetic fever was quite generally disbelieved . Persistent work in these few regions , however , eventually ...
... region . At first the opposition of the local people was almost unanimous . Even the fact that the tick is the carrier of splenetic fever was quite generally disbelieved . Persistent work in these few regions , however , eventually ...
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... regions . It is highly desirable , therefore , further to broaden the areas for these staples as far as experience and sound economics may warrant . While progress in this direction necessarily is slow , it is gratifying to note that in ...
... regions . It is highly desirable , therefore , further to broaden the areas for these staples as far as experience and sound economics may warrant . While progress in this direction necessarily is slow , it is gratifying to note that in ...
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... region , have shown that they can be grown throughout a much larger area . Dur- ing the past four years they have become established extensively in Montana and in the States of the Great Basin and the Pacific North- west . In the States ...
... region , have shown that they can be grown throughout a much larger area . Dur- ing the past four years they have become established extensively in Montana and in the States of the Great Basin and the Pacific North- west . In the States ...
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Page 36 - If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein...
Page 265 - ... maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said bureau...
Page 160 - June 30, 1916, 176,088,608 acres, including 20,668,328 acres of alienated land. The net National Forest area, or. in other words, the area actually owned by the public, was at the close of the year 155,420,280 acres.
Page 286 - Washington are given in the following table, from which it will be seen that, with three exceptions, books were lent last year to every State in the Union.
Page 297 - ... (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, including the farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the cooperative extension work in 15 Southern States; (4) the Office of Extension Work in the North and West, including the farmers...
Page 202 - Clearing House Letter" has been issued frequently to food and drug officials. Its purpose is to furnish officials all available current material bearing upon the enforcement of food and drug laws. ' A revision of the Manual of Procedure for the Guidance of State Health, Food, and Drug Officials was published in October, 1916. A compilation of the definitions and standards for foods and drugs that have been enacted into law by the several States was prepared and distributed to many officials. Concrete...
Page 372 - Nursery stock, including all field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots...
Page 49 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.
Page 20 - ... year. The sum of $250,000 is available for this purpose during the fiscal year 1917. A force of hunters and trappers has been organized in the infested States, and 543 wolves, 19,170 coyotes, and many other predatory animals have been destroyed. As a single wolf has been known to kill more than $3,000 worth of stock in one year, the effect on the stock-raising industry of the elimination of this number of destroyers is apparent. A continuance of the campaign should eliminate a large part of the...