Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 Contains administrative report only. |
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Page 12
... acreage increased from 2,938,778 in 1899 to 3,668,855 in 1909 , or 24.8 per cent , while the value of the product increased during the same period from approximately $ 98,400,000 to approximately $ 166,400,000 , or 69.2 per cent . The ...
... acreage increased from 2,938,778 in 1899 to 3,668,855 in 1909 , or 24.8 per cent , while the value of the product increased during the same period from approximately $ 98,400,000 to approximately $ 166,400,000 , or 69.2 per cent . The ...
Page 19
... acres , are not supporting the number of animals that formerly grazed upon them . By the application of a system of control and development similar to that used on the National Forests , it would be possible greatly to increase the ...
... acres , are not supporting the number of animals that formerly grazed upon them . By the application of a system of control and development similar to that used on the National Forests , it would be possible greatly to increase the ...
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... acres now supports sheep , with an average of one sheep of shearing age to 3 acres of land . The 300 million pounds of wool now imported annually could be secured from 50 million sheep , and this number could be added to our stock if a ...
... acres now supports sheep , with an average of one sheep of shearing age to 3 acres of land . The 300 million pounds of wool now imported annually could be secured from 50 million sheep , and this number could be added to our stock if a ...
Page 24
... acre fields of corn , planted on a 3,000 - acre farm in Ohio with seed selected from the department cooperative improvement plots on the farm , have been contrasted with the farm yields of the same variety of corn less rigidly selected ...
... acre fields of corn , planted on a 3,000 - acre farm in Ohio with seed selected from the department cooperative improvement plots on the farm , have been contrasted with the farm yields of the same variety of corn less rigidly selected ...
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... acres now are devoted to these crops . One of these sorghums has been changed by sys- tematic breeding into a ... acreage devoted to that crop has increased during the past five years from 1,400 to 67,000 . The farm value of the current ...
... acres now are devoted to these crops . One of these sorghums has been changed by sys- tematic breeding into a ... acreage devoted to that crop has increased during the past five years from 1,400 to 67,000 . The farm value of the current ...
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Page ii - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 36 - If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein...
Page 265 - ... the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington for the printing of weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, and other publications: Provided, That no printing shall be done by the Weather Bureau that can be done at the Government Printing Office without impairing the service of said bureau...
Page 383 - Japan, and adjacent islands, of seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize (Zea mays L.), and the closely related plants, including all species of Teosinte (Euchlaena...
Page 296 - Number of volumes added during year by binding material not otherwise counted. Number of volumes lost or withdrawn during year...
Page 384 - England), excepting fruit pits, seeds of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, field, vegetable, and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants and roots...
Page 383 - Mediterranean fruit fly and the melon fly, except that bananas and pineapples may be moved from the Territory of Hawaii in manner or method or under conditions prescribed in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture. Cotton lint from Hawaii may be shipped to the continental United States only in accordance with the regulations prescribed in the notice of quarantine, on account of the pink boll worm.
Page 286 - The figures for the last five years are given in the following table, from which it will be seen that there has been a considerable expansion in the output during the period covered : Building Materials 1899 to 1903 Material.
Page 160 - June 30, 1916, 176,088,608 acres, including 20,668,328 acres of alienated land. The net National Forest area, or, in other words, the area actually owned by the public, was at the close of the year 155,420,280 acres.
Page 372 - 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...