Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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... considerable sections of the Union were adverse in 1917 especially for wheat and in 1918 for corn . Notwithstanding this fact , the aggregate yield of the leading cereals in each of these years exceeded that of any pre- ceding year in ...
... considerable sections of the Union were adverse in 1917 especially for wheat and in 1918 for corn . Notwithstanding this fact , the aggregate yield of the leading cereals in each of these years exceeded that of any pre- ceding year in ...
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... considerable period the world will have need particularly of a larger supply than normal of certain live stock , and especially of fats . We must not fail , therefore , to adopt every feasible means of economically increasing these ...
... considerable period the world will have need particularly of a larger supply than normal of certain live stock , and especially of fats . We must not fail , therefore , to adopt every feasible means of economically increasing these ...
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... considerable increase in the number of animals was possible without overgrazing the forests . The number of cattle under permit for the 1918 season was nearly 2,140,000 , and of sheep more than 8,450,000 . In two years there were placed ...
... considerable increase in the number of animals was possible without overgrazing the forests . The number of cattle under permit for the 1918 season was nearly 2,140,000 , and of sheep more than 8,450,000 . In two years there were placed ...
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... considerable prog- ress was made in this direction , and the methods of supervising the work of licensed inspectors recently adopted should secure further improvement . The demand for the official inspection of grain is steadily ...
... considerable prog- ress was made in this direction , and the methods of supervising the work of licensed inspectors recently adopted should secure further improvement . The demand for the official inspection of grain is steadily ...
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... considerable depletion of the appropriation available for the work , and it will , therefore , be necessary to ask Congress for an emergency appropriation to reimburse the fund thus expended . THE SITUATION IN MEXICO . The situation in ...
... considerable depletion of the appropriation available for the work , and it will , therefore , be necessary to ask Congress for an emergency appropriation to reimburse the fund thus expended . THE SITUATION IN MEXICO . The situation in ...
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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.