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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... season will con- siderably exceed that of any preceding fall planting . YIELDS . In each of the last two years climatic conditions over considerable sections of the Union were adverse in 1917 especially for wheat and in 1918 for corn ...
... season will con- siderably exceed that of any preceding fall planting . YIELDS . In each of the last two years climatic conditions over considerable sections of the Union were adverse in 1917 especially for wheat and in 1918 for corn ...
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... season , nor can anyone now tell what the world demand will be at the close of the harvest season of 1919 . We do know that for the ensuing months the Nation is likely to be called upon for large quantities of available food and feeds ...
... season , nor can anyone now tell what the world demand will be at the close of the harvest season of 1919 . We do know that for the ensuing months the Nation is likely to be called upon for large quantities of available food and feeds ...
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... season , will lay the situation before the farmers of the Nation . They will attempt to outline the needs and to suggest particular crops the increased production of which should be emphasized . COOPERATION OF OFFICIAL AGENCIES . To aid ...
... season , will lay the situation before the farmers of the Nation . They will attempt to outline the needs and to suggest particular crops the increased production of which should be emphasized . COOPERATION OF OFFICIAL AGENCIES . To aid ...
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... season of plenty for use in time of scarcity . Steps were taken also to encourage the growing of cattle and sheep , but results are naturally slower with these animals than with pigs and poultry . Stockmen in all parts of the country ...
... season of plenty for use in time of scarcity . Steps were taken also to encourage the growing of cattle and sheep , but results are naturally slower with these animals than with pigs and poultry . Stockmen in all parts of the country ...
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... season was nearly 2,140,000 , and of sheep more than 8,450,000 . In two years there were placed on the forests approximately 1,000,000 additional head of live stock , representing about 25,000,000 pounds of beef , 16,000,000 of mutton ...
... season was nearly 2,140,000 , and of sheep more than 8,450,000 . In two years there were placed on the forests approximately 1,000,000 additional head of live stock , representing about 25,000,000 pounds of beef , 16,000,000 of mutton ...
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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.