Deparment of Agriculture for June 30, |
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... trees and hardy plants 226 Investigations of insects injurious to vegetable and truck crops . Insects injurious to stored products_- 229 232 Insects affecting tropical and subtropical fruits_ 233 Bee - culture investigations ...
... trees and hardy plants 226 Investigations of insects injurious to vegetable and truck crops . Insects injurious to stored products_- 229 232 Insects affecting tropical and subtropical fruits_ 233 Bee - culture investigations ...
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... trees by top - working on a rather large scale . This study will be extended to some of the deciduous - tree fruits . As the economic soundness of commercial fruit orcharding to a considerable extent rests upon the maintenance of high ...
... trees by top - working on a rather large scale . This study will be extended to some of the deciduous - tree fruits . As the economic soundness of commercial fruit orcharding to a considerable extent rests upon the maintenance of high ...
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... trees , the disease can be eradicated promptly and effectively . Although thorough inspection of citrus plantings will be necessary , at least throughout the coming fiscal year , it is believed that Florida now is so nearly free of the ...
... trees , the disease can be eradicated promptly and effectively . Although thorough inspection of citrus plantings will be necessary , at least throughout the coming fiscal year , it is believed that Florida now is so nearly free of the ...
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... trees , and ornamental plants . It is safe to say that some form of remedial treatment has been found for every markedly injurious insect in the United States , but continued efforts are being made to find some- thing more effective or ...
... trees , and ornamental plants . It is safe to say that some form of remedial treatment has been found for every markedly injurious insect in the United States , but continued efforts are being made to find some- thing more effective or ...
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... trees while green or partly green in color and still unripe , and subject it to a sweating process so as to give it the characteristic yellow color of ripe fruit . The incen- tive to the grower was the higher price afforded by an early ...
... trees while green or partly green in color and still unripe , and subject it to a sweating process so as to give it the characteristic yellow color of ripe fruit . The incen- tive to the grower was the higher price afforded by an early ...
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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...