Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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Page iii
... cotton .. The pink bollworm of cotton .. Texas border quarantine service .. The situation in Mexico .. Nursery stock importations . Citrus canker .. Crop estimates ... Seed - grain loans in drouth areas . The farm - labor supply ...
... cotton .. The pink bollworm of cotton .. Texas border quarantine service .. The situation in Mexico .. Nursery stock importations . Citrus canker .. Crop estimates ... Seed - grain loans in drouth areas . The farm - labor supply ...
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... cotton districts .... Report of the Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry . Work and organization of the bureau ... Plant breeding .. Investigations of the quality of seed . 126 127 128 129 Experiments and demonstrations in live ...
... cotton districts .... Report of the Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry . Work and organization of the bureau ... Plant breeding .. Investigations of the quality of seed . 126 127 128 129 Experiments and demonstrations in live ...
Page vii
... cotton futures act United States grain standards act . Page . 416 417 417 418 418 419 419 419 United States warehouse act .. 420 Standard container act . 420 Food control act .. 420 Food production act ... 421 Miscellaneous work for the ...
... cotton futures act United States grain standards act . Page . 416 417 417 418 418 419 419 419 United States warehouse act .. 420 Standard container act . 420 Food control act .. 420 Food production act ... 421 Miscellaneous work for the ...
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... Cotton ......... Grand total 1,452 , 900 1,447,000 1,413,000 1,224,000 1,209,000 37,073 , 000 33,841,000 34 , 985 , 000 36,832,000 35 , 330,000 289,073 , 300 283,441,000 261 , 242 , 000 1 250 , 692 , 0001248 , 256 , 000 Crops . 1 ...
... Cotton ......... Grand total 1,452 , 900 1,447,000 1,413,000 1,224,000 1,209,000 37,073 , 000 33,841,000 34 , 985 , 000 36,832,000 35 , 330,000 289,073 , 300 283,441,000 261 , 242 , 000 1 250 , 692 , 0001248 , 256 , 000 Crops . 1 ...
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... cotton farmer , and producer of improved types of cotton ; W. R. Dodson , of Louisiana , farmer and dean of the Louisiana College of Agriculture ; Wesley G. Gordon , of Tennessee , demonstrator of better farming and influential in ...
... cotton farmer , and producer of improved types of cotton ; W. R. Dodson , of Louisiana , farmer and dean of the Louisiana College of Agriculture ; Wesley G. Gordon , of Tennessee , demonstrator of better farming and influential in ...
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acreage acres addition amount animals assistance beans beekeeping birds Board breeding brown-tail Bulletins Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Markets campaign cattle cent cheese continued cooperation corn cost cottage cheese cottonseed meal county agents dairy demonstrations Department of Agriculture disease distribution district Division eggs eradication especially experiment stations extension farm farmers Federal Federal Horticultural Board feed field fiscal year 1917 Food Administration food production Forest Service funds Government grain growers hogs important improved increase infested insect insecticides inspection investigations issued June 30 labor land large number Library live stock manufacture material meat ment methods Mexico milk National Forests North Dakota Office operation organization pending pink bollworm potatoes poultry pounds practically prepared projects quarantine regulations reports road season secure sheep shipments silage soil supervision supply survey tests Texas tion United various velvet beans Washington wheat
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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.