Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended ...: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Miscellaneous ReportsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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... cent above the average in quality , and greatly superior to that of 1917. It has been estimated that of the large crop of last year , approximately 900,000,000 bushels were REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE . 5 Acreage Yields.
... cent above the average in quality , and greatly superior to that of 1917. It has been estimated that of the large crop of last year , approximately 900,000,000 bushels were REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE . 5 Acreage Yields.
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... cent of the corn crop is annually consumed by human beings and that not more than 26 per cent ever leaves the farm . It should be borne in mind also that the stocks of corn on the farms November 1 , 1918 , were 118,400,000 bushels , as ...
... cent of the corn crop is annually consumed by human beings and that not more than 26 per cent ever leaves the farm . It should be borne in mind also that the stocks of corn on the farms November 1 , 1918 , were 118,400,000 bushels , as ...
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... cent in pork production this year over 1917 , asked for by the Food Administration , will be realized , at least in weight if not in number of hogs . Poultry and eggs also show a material increase , and enormous quantities of the latter ...
... cent in pork production this year over 1917 , asked for by the Food Administration , will be realized , at least in weight if not in number of hogs . Poultry and eggs also show a material increase , and enormous quantities of the latter ...
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... cent of that originally quarantined ; and the work of the past summer will result in the addition of 79,217 more on ... cents a head , while the enhanced value of each animal greatly exceeds this , one canvass having shown an estimated ...
... cent of that originally quarantined ; and the work of the past summer will result in the addition of 79,217 more on ... cents a head , while the enhanced value of each animal greatly exceeds this , one canvass having shown an estimated ...
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... cent in less than five years . Stated in another way , the death rate from hog cholera in the United States was 144 per thousand in 1897 , 118 in 1914 , and only 42 in 1917 , the lowest in 35 years . The protective serum was used also ...
... cent in less than five years . Stated in another way , the death rate from hog cholera in the United States was 144 per thousand in 1897 , 118 in 1914 , and only 42 in 1917 , the lowest in 35 years . The protective serum was used also ...
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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 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 108 - Carolina; with the Office of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior...
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 southeastern Asia (including India, Siam, IndoChina, and China), Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Philippine Islands, Formosa, Japan, and adjacent islands, in the raw or unmanufactured state, of seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize (Zea.
Page 480 - ... for enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and certify to shippers the condition as to soundness...
Page 473 - Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
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.