Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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... connection with their purchases of food supplies . Inspections are now made not only at the request of shippers but also of receivers and other interested parties . Owing to the ever - increasing distance between important pro- ducing ...
... connection with their purchases of food supplies . Inspections are now made not only at the request of shippers but also of receivers and other interested parties . Owing to the ever - increasing distance between important pro- ducing ...
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... connection with the classification of agricultural registrants . Spe- cial efforts were made , beginning early in the year , to impress upon the residents of urban communities the necessity of aiding farmers in the planting and ...
... connection with the classification of agricultural registrants . Spe- cial efforts were made , beginning early in the year , to impress upon the residents of urban communities the necessity of aiding farmers in the planting and ...
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... connection with its efforts to recruit farm labor , encourage the preservation of perishable fruits and vegetables , prevent forest fires , and stimulate agricultural produc- tion . They were shown , through the extension service , to ...
... connection with its efforts to recruit farm labor , encourage the preservation of perishable fruits and vegetables , prevent forest fires , and stimulate agricultural produc- tion . They were shown , through the extension service , to ...
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... connection with the Federal aid road work , a letter was ad- dressed to each State highway department asking that a program of Federal aid construction be submitted at the earliest possible date , in which would be included only those ...
... connection with the Federal aid road work , a letter was ad- dressed to each State highway department asking that a program of Federal aid construction be submitted at the earliest possible date , in which would be included only those ...
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... connection with stockyards . The important results already accomplished in the improvement of live- stock marketing conditions , and in the elimination of many un- economic and unfair market practices , demonstrate the effectiveness of ...
... connection with stockyards . The important results already accomplished in the improvement of live- stock marketing conditions , and in the elimination of many un- economic and unfair market practices , demonstrate the effectiveness of ...
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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.