Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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... EFFORT . The efforts put forth by the farmers and the agricultural organi- zations to secure increased production can perhaps best be concretely indicated in terms of planting operations . The size of the harvest may not be the measure ...
... EFFORT . The efforts put forth by the farmers and the agricultural organi- zations to secure increased production can perhaps best be concretely indicated in terms of planting operations . The size of the harvest may not be the measure ...
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... efforts to secure an ampler supply of meat and dairy products . In spite of the large exportation of horses and mules , the number remaining on farms is estimated to be 26,400,000 , compared with 25,400,000 for the year preceding the ...
... efforts to secure an ampler supply of meat and dairy products . In spite of the large exportation of horses and mules , the number remaining on farms is estimated to be 26,400,000 , compared with 25,400,000 for the year preceding the ...
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... efforts in everv undertaking . The authorities and staffs of the agricultural colleges in every State of the Union placed their facilities 10 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . Cooperation of official agencies.
... efforts in everv undertaking . The authorities and staffs of the agricultural colleges in every State of the Union placed their facilities 10 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . Cooperation of official agencies.
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... efforts and plans with the utmost zeal , and omitted no opportunity , on their own initiative , to adopt and prosecute helpful measures and to urge the best agricultural practice suited to their localities . They not only responded ...
... efforts and plans with the utmost zeal , and omitted no opportunity , on their own initiative , to adopt and prosecute helpful measures and to urge the best agricultural practice suited to their localities . They not only responded ...
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... efforts . It would be almost easier to tell what these men and women did not do than to indicate the variety and extent of their operations . They have actively labored not only to further the plans for increased economical production ...
... efforts . It would be almost easier to tell what these men and women did not do than to indicate the variety and extent of their operations . They have actively labored not only to further the plans for increased economical production ...
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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.