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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... methods were different . Within the last year there has been a change . The attention of the world has been directed to its food supply , and agriculture has assumed a place of even greater importance in the world's thought . More space ...
... methods were different . Within the last year there has been a change . The attention of the world has been directed to its food supply , and agriculture has assumed a place of even greater importance in the world's thought . More space ...
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... method of eradication employed is the systematic and reg- ular dipping , throughout the season , in a standard arsenical ... methods . of control involved farm sanitation , quarantine , and the applica- tion of anti - hog - cholera serum ...
... method of eradication employed is the systematic and reg- ular dipping , throughout the season , in a standard arsenical ... methods . of control involved farm sanitation , quarantine , and the applica- tion of anti - hog - cholera serum ...
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... methods which would secure the most complete utilization of the forage disclosed that a very considerable increase in the number of animals was possible without overgrazing the forests . The number of cattle under permit for the 1918 ...
... methods which would secure the most complete utilization of the forage disclosed that a very considerable increase in the number of animals was possible without overgrazing the forests . The number of cattle under permit for the 1918 ...
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... methods of poultry keeping on the farms and of improved stock in general . ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTENSION WORK . In view of the stress of war requirements practically the entire Animal Husbandry Division has been and is doing extension work ...
... methods of poultry keeping on the farms and of improved stock in general . ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTENSION WORK . In view of the stress of war requirements practically the entire Animal Husbandry Division has been and is doing extension work ...
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... methods and the relative value of each method determined . SHEEP AND GOAT INVESTIGATIONS Prior to July , 1917 , all sheep husbandry projects were mainly of an investigational character . The efforts of the last year have been devoted ...
... methods and the relative value of each method determined . SHEEP AND GOAT INVESTIGATIONS Prior to July , 1917 , all sheep husbandry projects were mainly of an investigational character . The efforts of the last year have been devoted ...
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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.