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... acreage and making it uncertain whether seed would rot in the ground or whether those which germinated would 3 reach maturity . In only 4 years of the last R V 5/12/21 CONTENTS REPORT OF THE SECRETARY Large harvest Many obstacles ...
... acreage and making it uncertain whether seed would rot in the ground or whether those which germinated would 3 reach maturity . In only 4 years of the last R V 5/12/21 CONTENTS REPORT OF THE SECRETARY Large harvest Many obstacles ...
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... Acreage of crops in the United States . [ Figures refer to planted acreage for winter wheat and rye . ] 1920 ( unre- vised esti- mate , Octo- ber , 1920 ) . 1919 ( subject to revision ) .1 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 Annual average , 1910 ...
... Acreage of crops in the United States . [ Figures refer to planted acreage for winter wheat and rye . ] 1920 ( unre- vised esti- mate , Octo- ber , 1920 ) . 1919 ( subject to revision ) .1 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 Annual average , 1910 ...
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... acre increased only 20 per cent during the 40 years from 1860 to 1900 , the price in 1920 is two and one - half times that of 1910 and five times that of 20 years ago . In some sections , the net return on the purchase price of farm ...
... acre increased only 20 per cent during the 40 years from 1860 to 1900 , the price in 1920 is two and one - half times that of 1910 and five times that of 20 years ago . In some sections , the net return on the purchase price of farm ...
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... acreage . From 1919 to 1920 there was a decline of 5.4 per cent in the acreage of 20 principal crops . Apparently , the reduction has been brought about by returning the land to pastures and by discontinuing the use of the low - grade ...
... acreage . From 1919 to 1920 there was a decline of 5.4 per cent in the acreage of 20 principal crops . Apparently , the reduction has been brought about by returning the land to pastures and by discontinuing the use of the low - grade ...
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... acre and reduced costs of production , will go far toward insuring a just measure of prosperity to the producer , with a fair scale of prices to the consumer . If the increasing population of the Nation is to be fed from the available ...
... acre and reduced costs of production , will go far toward insuring a just measure of prosperity to the producer , with a fair scale of prices to the consumer . If the increasing population of the Nation is to be fed from the available ...
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Page 100 - This is the first time that an attempt has been made to gather together the whole broad subject of home economics into one correlated series of volumes.
Page 262 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,' " approved March 3, 1913, shall include and shall be construed to include wrapped meats inclosed in papers or other materials as prepared by the manufacturers thereof for sale.
Page ii - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 590 - That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized in his discretion to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture all available war material, equipment, and supplies not needed for the purposes of the War Department, but suitable for use in the improvement of highways, and that the same be distributed among the highway departments of the several States to be used on roads constructed in whole or in part by Federal aid...
Page 596 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 633 - ... for the purpose of keeping the country supplied with new varieties and necessary propagating stock...
Page 438 - It would seem that at lower temperatures the line representing this relation must become concave upward, and it is hoped that in the near future it will be possible to carry out some experiments on this equilibrium below 1000 degrees, to test this point.
Page 587 - Such permits may not include land or deposits in (a) national parks; (6) forests created under the act of March 1, 1911 (36 Stat., 961), known as the Appalachian Forest Reserve act; (c) lands in military or naval reservations; or (d) Indian reservations.
Page 592 - Recommended in the treatment of Bright's disease," etc., "Directions * * * " — could only mean that the use of the water in the treatment of the diseases named would effect a cure or alleviation of such diseases ; otherwise, why recommend it? Unless this means that the water did contain elements or ingredients which would alleviate or cure the diseases named, when taken according to the directions thereon contained, it was a waste of printer's ink.
Page 607 - AN ACT For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, and other insecticides, and also fungicides, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.