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... breeding , and horticulture . New crop plants and crop ' extension .. Forage crops .. 159 161 161 183 186 188 Crop utilization ... 191 Congressional seed distribution .... New and rare field - seed distribution .. Soil - fertility ...
... breeding , and horticulture . New crop plants and crop ' extension .. Forage crops .. 159 161 161 183 186 188 Crop utilization ... 191 Congressional seed distribution .... New and rare field - seed distribution .. Soil - fertility ...
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... breeding of better animals . The development of improved crop plants , through breeding , selec- tion , and in other ways , has almost limitless possibilities and has received a great deal of attention both from the Department of Agri ...
... breeding of better animals . The development of improved crop plants , through breeding , selec- tion , and in other ways , has almost limitless possibilities and has received a great deal of attention both from the Department of Agri ...
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... breeding and development of improved types of animals offers possibilities at least equal to those involved in the breeding and selec- tion of better crop plants . The campaign now under way for " Better Sires Better Stock " is ...
... breeding and development of improved types of animals offers possibilities at least equal to those involved in the breeding and selec- tion of better crop plants . The campaign now under way for " Better Sires Better Stock " is ...
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... bred or grade dairy cows frequently earn for their owners from 25 to 100 per cent more than the returns received from ... breeding and heredity . This work is of fundamental importance and should be further developed . UTILIZATION OF ...
... bred or grade dairy cows frequently earn for their owners from 25 to 100 per cent more than the returns received from ... breeding and heredity . This work is of fundamental importance and should be further developed . UTILIZATION OF ...
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... breeding grounds , ranges , and refuges for wild animals and birds . The admin- istration of these reservations is committed to the Department . of Agriculture . Section 84 of the Penal Code forbids hunting on the bird reservations ...
... breeding grounds , ranges , and refuges for wild animals and birds . The admin- istration of these reservations is committed to the Department . of Agriculture . Section 84 of the Penal Code forbids hunting on the bird reservations ...
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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.