Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1921 |
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... methods employed and results obtained by farmers in attempts to improve their credit through united and cooperative action ; life insurance in relation to farm finance , covering the use of life insurance contracts as a means of ...
... methods employed and results obtained by farmers in attempts to improve their credit through united and cooperative action ; life insurance in relation to farm finance , covering the use of life insurance contracts as a means of ...
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... methods . With local exceptions here and there , however , this land is either inferior to that now in use or can be made available for farming only through heavy outlays for improvement . AREA EXPANDED DURING THE WAR . War conditions ...
... methods . With local exceptions here and there , however , this land is either inferior to that now in use or can be made available for farming only through heavy outlays for improvement . AREA EXPANDED DURING THE WAR . War conditions ...
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... method for controlling wheat scab , which caused in 1919 the loss of nearly 60,000,000 bushels of wheat ; a convenient method of testing seed corn for germination and of eliminating disease infection before planting has been devised ...
... method for controlling wheat scab , which caused in 1919 the loss of nearly 60,000,000 bushels of wheat ; a convenient method of testing seed corn for germination and of eliminating disease infection before planting has been devised ...
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... METHODS AND PRACTICES . Better tillage and rotations , more rational irrigation , judicious fertilizing , the greater use of legumes , and proper attention to farm layout , distribution of labor , choice and care of farm machinery , and ...
... METHODS AND PRACTICES . Better tillage and rotations , more rational irrigation , judicious fertilizing , the greater use of legumes , and proper attention to farm layout , distribution of labor , choice and care of farm machinery , and ...
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... methods of feeding under regional conditions , and the general principles of breeding and heredity . This work is of fundamental importance and should be further developed . UTILIZATION OF SURPLUS AND WASTE PRODUCTS . Along with the ...
... methods of feeding under regional conditions , and the general principles of breeding and heredity . This work is of fundamental importance and should be further developed . UTILIZATION OF SURPLUS AND WASTE PRODUCTS . Along with the ...
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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,...