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... secured in many directions . One of the most significant activities now under way is the effort to reduce the tremendous losses from wheat rust , aggregating in some years as much as 200,000,000 bushels . Scientific investigation has ...
... secured in many directions . One of the most significant activities now under way is the effort to reduce the tremendous losses from wheat rust , aggregating in some years as much as 200,000,000 bushels . Scientific investigation has ...
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... secured with most of our important crop plants , and illustrate clearly what will , without doubt , continue to be a fruitful field of activity for a large corps of investigators . VALUABLE NEW PLANTS INTRODUCED . A somewhat similar ...
... secured with most of our important crop plants , and illustrate clearly what will , without doubt , continue to be a fruitful field of activity for a large corps of investigators . VALUABLE NEW PLANTS INTRODUCED . A somewhat similar ...
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... secured . Unquestionably , it will be possible , when the best methods have been worked out , to develop a potash industry on the Pacific coast capable of supplying a consid- erable part of the Nation's needs . Two processes for the ...
... secured . Unquestionably , it will be possible , when the best methods have been worked out , to develop a potash industry on the Pacific coast capable of supplying a consid- erable part of the Nation's needs . Two processes for the ...
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... secured without full information regarding the means of controlling their growth . Un- fortunately , at a time when better knowledge is particularly urgent , the machinery for obtaining it has been seriously curtailed as the result of ...
... secured without full information regarding the means of controlling their growth . Un- fortunately , at a time when better knowledge is particularly urgent , the machinery for obtaining it has been seriously curtailed as the result of ...
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... secured . FUNDS FOR 1922 . The estimates of the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1922 , aggregate $ 41,989,384 , representing an increase of $ 10,276,600 over the appropriation for the current year . Of ...
... secured . FUNDS FOR 1922 . The estimates of the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1922 , aggregate $ 41,989,384 , representing an increase of $ 10,276,600 over the appropriation for the current year . Of ...
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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.