Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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... carried on a campaign for a large wheat acreage , and indications were given by States as to where the requisite planting could be secured without calling for an extension of the area or even a normal acreage in the States which had ...
... carried on a campaign for a large wheat acreage , and indications were given by States as to where the requisite planting could be secured without calling for an extension of the area or even a normal acreage in the States which had ...
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... carried to the rural popula- tion the latest and best information bearing on agriculture , but also to secure the conservation of foods and feeds on the farm ; and , in addition , many of them have aided in the task of promoting the bet ...
... carried to the rural popula- tion the latest and best information bearing on agriculture , but also to secure the conservation of foods and feeds on the farm ; and , in addition , many of them have aided in the task of promoting the bet ...
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... carried out , in coopera- tion with the State of Texas , under special appropriations to the Department of $ 50,000 , available March 4 , 1917 , and $ 250,000 , avail- able October 6 , 1917. All standing cotton was uprooted and burned ...
... carried out , in coopera- tion with the State of Texas , under special appropriations to the Department of $ 50,000 , available March 4 , 1917 , and $ 250,000 , avail- able October 6 , 1917. All standing cotton was uprooted and burned ...
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... carry their live stock through the winter . THE FARM - LABOR SUPPLY . The Department of Agriculture continued throughout the year to give earnest attention to the securing and mobilization of an adequate supply of farm labor . It ...
... carry their live stock through the winter . THE FARM - LABOR SUPPLY . The Department of Agriculture continued throughout the year to give earnest attention to the securing and mobilization of an adequate supply of farm labor . It ...
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United States. Department of Agriculture. tainties ; and to provide positive assistance in carrying on vitally essen- tial highway work , I requested each of the Government departments and administrations interested to name a ...
United States. Department of Agriculture. tainties ; and to provide positive assistance in carrying on vitally essen- tial highway work , I requested each of the Government departments and administrations interested to name a ...
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Page ii - L.. 1895.) [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 71 - I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, together with plans and recommendations for the future.
Page 170 - ... which, after due examination by personal inspection of a competent person appointed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be found better adapted for mining or for agricultural purposes than for forest usage, may be restored to the public domain. And...
Page 448 - nursery stock" shall include all field-grown florist stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit, and ornamental trees and 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 449 - 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 43 - Union, included provisions especially designed to assist the farming population. It authorized national banks to lend money on farm mortgages and recognized the peculiar needs of the farmer by giving his paper a maturity period of six months. This was followed by the Federal farm loan act, which created a banking system reaching intimately into the rural districts and operating on terms suited to the farm owners
Page 448 - Prohibits the importation from each and every country of Europe and Asia, and from the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland, of all five-leafed pines and all species and varieties of the genera Ribes and Grossularia, on account of the white-pine blister rust.
Page 473 - Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Wyoming.
Page 410 - Second. In the case of articles labeled, branded, or tagged so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations, or blends, and the word " compound,"
Page 111 - Best results may be expected only when every live-stock owner becomes familiar with the provisions of the accredited-herd plan, which are as follows: METHODS AND RULES FOR ACCREDITING HERDS OF CATTLE. The rules below were unanimously adopted by the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association and by representatives of pure-bred cattle-breeders' associations, and approved December 23, 1917, by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture.