Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1921 |
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... Given a sound basis of distribution , the curtailment of the so - called hazards of production - plant and animal diseases , insect pests , pred- atory animals , and rodents - with resulting increased yields per acre and reduced costs ...
... Given a sound basis of distribution , the curtailment of the so - called hazards of production - plant and animal diseases , insect pests , pred- atory animals , and rodents - with resulting increased yields per acre and reduced costs ...
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... given to the military needs , and provision , therefore , has been made for cooperation with the War Department in making an extensive study to determine the roads which are needed to meet them . TECHNICAL PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED . With ...
... given to the military needs , and provision , therefore , has been made for cooperation with the War Department in making an extensive study to determine the roads which are needed to meet them . TECHNICAL PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED . With ...
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... given , so as to permit their utilization for indus- trial purposes under proper regulations . The department also should be authorized to follow and reinspect products bearing the Federal mark of inspection after they have left the ...
... given , so as to permit their utilization for indus- trial purposes under proper regulations . The department also should be authorized to follow and reinspect products bearing the Federal mark of inspection after they have left the ...
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... given it to enforce compliance with these standards . The term " drugs , " as defined in the act , should be broadened to include specifically all cosmetics , toilet preparations , face creams , hair dyes , and antifat and antilean ...
... given it to enforce compliance with these standards . The term " drugs , " as defined in the act , should be broadened to include specifically all cosmetics , toilet preparations , face creams , hair dyes , and antifat and antilean ...
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... given the department to regulate the occupancy and use of the reservations , so that they may be devoted to all proper and lawful purposes consistent with the preservation and protection of the birds and animals thereon , and power to ...
... given the department to regulate the occupancy and use of the reservations , so that they may be devoted to all proper and lawful purposes consistent with the preservation and protection of the birds and animals thereon , and power to ...
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Page 100 - This is the first time that an attempt has been made to gather together the whole broad subject of home economics into one correlated series of volumes.
Page 262 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,' " approved March 3, 1913, shall include and shall be construed to include wrapped meats inclosed in papers or other materials as prepared by the manufacturers thereof for sale.
Page 590 - That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized in his discretion to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture all available war material, equipment, and supplies not needed for the purposes of the War Department, but suitable for use in the improvement of highways, and that the same be distributed among the highway departments of the several States to be used on roads constructed in whole or in part by Federal aid...
Page 438 - It would seem that at lower temperatures the line representing this relation must become concave upward, and it is hoped that in the near future it will be possible to carry out some experiments on this equilibrium below 1000 degrees, to test this point.
Page 607 - AN ACT For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
Page 587 - Such permits may not include land or deposits in (a) national parks; (6) forests created under the act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat., 961), known as the Appalachian Forest Reserve act; (c) lands in military or naval reservations; or (d) Indian reservations.
Page 636 - 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 496 - July 11, 1916, is hereby amended to provide that the term "rural post roads," as used in section 2 of said act, shall be construed to mean any public road a major portion of which is now used, or can be used, or forms a connecting link not to exceed ten miles in length of any road or roads now or hereafter used for the transportation of the United States mails...
Page ii - [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page ii - Secretary, be specially suited to interest and instruct the fanners of the country, and to include a general report of the operations of the Department for their information. There shall be printed of Part One, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; and of Part Two, one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives,...