Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 Contains administrative report only. |
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... loss from disease , flood , and drouth , to put his labor and capital into the production of food , feeds , and the raw material for clothing . The work of the agricultural agencies is not much in the public eye . There is little of the ...
... loss from disease , flood , and drouth , to put his labor and capital into the production of food , feeds , and the raw material for clothing . The work of the agricultural agencies is not much in the public eye . There is little of the ...
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... losses from the cattle tick , hog cholera , tuberculosis , predatory animals , and crop pests , and , in conjunction with the Department of Labor , rendered assistance to the farmers in securing labor . It safeguarded seed stocks and ...
... losses from the cattle tick , hog cholera , tuberculosis , predatory animals , and crop pests , and , in conjunction with the Department of Labor , rendered assistance to the farmers in securing labor . It safeguarded seed stocks and ...
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... loss from disease . The campaigns for increased production yielded especially fruit- ful results in respect to pigs and poultry . Indications are that the increase of 15 per cent in pork production this year over 1917 , asked for by the ...
... loss from disease . The campaigns for increased production yielded especially fruit- ful results in respect to pigs and poultry . Indications are that the increase of 15 per cent in pork production this year over 1917 , asked for by the ...
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... losses , but also permits the raising of high - class beef cattle and the development of dairying in sections where neither was before economically possible . Hog cholera . - The ravages of hog cholera , the greatest obstacle to ...
... losses , but also permits the raising of high - class beef cattle and the development of dairying in sections where neither was before economically possible . Hog cholera . - The ravages of hog cholera , the greatest obstacle to ...
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... losses from influenza or shipping fever of horses , which has been very prevalent among animals collected for Army purposes . Greater efforts were put forth also to control , reduce , and prevent blackleg , anthrax , hemorrhagic ...
... losses from influenza or shipping fever of horses , which has been very prevalent among animals collected for Army purposes . Greater efforts were put forth also to control , reduce , and prevent blackleg , anthrax , hemorrhagic ...
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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.