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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... present abnormal con- ditions but also for the future . The local as well as the State and Federal agencies are of supreme importance to the Nation in all its activities designed to make rural life more profitable , healthful , and ...
... present abnormal con- ditions but also for the future . The local as well as the State and Federal agencies are of supreme importance to the Nation in all its activities designed to make rural life more profitable , healthful , and ...
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... present our efforts are concentrated on the first project , since the pure - bred herds are the foundation of our breeding stock . A plan adopted in December , 1917 , by the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association and ...
... present our efforts are concentrated on the first project , since the pure - bred herds are the foundation of our breeding stock . A plan adopted in December , 1917 , by the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association and ...
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... present time . DAIRY PRODUCTS . The Department endeavored to bring about an increase in the out- put of dairy products by means of more and better cows , improved methods and practices , and the extension of dairying in sections where ...
... present time . DAIRY PRODUCTS . The Department endeavored to bring about an increase in the out- put of dairy products by means of more and better cows , improved methods and practices , and the extension of dairying in sections where ...
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... present there for three or four years , and it must have been introduced either through some importation of foreign cotton seed in violation of the Federal quarantine , or , as seems more probable , through storm - distributed cotton or ...
... present there for three or four years , and it must have been introduced either through some importation of foreign cotton seed in violation of the Federal quarantine , or , as seems more probable , through storm - distributed cotton or ...
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... present the best available means of disinfection involves the use of hydrocyanic - acid gas generated within the cars . This method , however , is unsatisfactory on account of the poor condition of the cars and the fact that it does not ...
... present the best available means of disinfection involves the use of hydrocyanic - acid gas generated within the cars . This method , however , is unsatisfactory on account of the poor condition of the cars and the fact that it does not ...
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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.