Agricultural Appropriation Bill: 1924, Hearing ... 67th Congress, 4th Session1922 - 542 pages |
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Page 484 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the...
Page 497 - Provided, That the limitations in this act as to the cost of farm buildings shall not apply to this paragraph : Provided further, that no part of this appropriation shall be used...
Page 156 - That of this sum $50,000 may be used for explorations, research, and field experiments relating to potential rubber-producing plants. For the investigation,. testing, and improvement of plants yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils, and related products and by-products, and for general physiological and fermentation investigations, $58,200.
Page 67 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make suitable agricultural exhibits at State, interstate, and international fairs held within the United States...
Page 147 - For the investigation of diseases of cotton, potatoes, truck crops, forage crops, drug and related plants, $167,570; of which $7,500 shall be immediately available for investigations relating to the root-rot of cotton.
Page 154 - The next is the subappropriation for soil-fertility investigations into organic causes of infertility and remedial measures, maintenance of productivity, properties, and composition of soil humus, and the transformation and formation of soil humus by soil organisms, $45,060.
Page 86 - For the maintenance of stations, for observing, measuring, and investigating atmospheric phenomena, including salaries and other expenses, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, $1,400,000.
Page 153 - Soil microbiology investigations: For investigations of the micro-organisms of the soil and their activities, including the testing of samples procured in the open market, of cultures for inoculating legumes, other crops, or soil, and the publication of results, and if any such samples are found to be impure, nonviable, or misbranded, the results of the tests may be published, together with the names of the manufacturers and of the persons by whom the cultures were offered for Bile, $39,854.
Page 179 - For investigations in foreign seed and plant introduction, including the study, collection, purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries and from our possessions, and for experiments with reference to their introduction and cultivation in this country, $182,300.
Page 112 - ... more of a national function than the appropriation of a similar amount to a department of education to "conduct studies in the field of education"?