Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended ...: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Miscellaneous ReportsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 Contains administrative report only. |
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... associations , corporations operating for the producers , and individual growers was formed during the past year . The purpose of the organization is to secure broader distri- bution through the establishment of uniform grades and ...
... associations , corporations operating for the producers , and individual growers was formed during the past year . The purpose of the organization is to secure broader distri- bution through the establishment of uniform grades and ...
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... associations now includes 485 organizations , aside from 440 other agricultural associations which ship live stock as a branch of their business . The farmers ' cooperative packing - house movement was studied and a press bulletin on ...
... associations now includes 485 organizations , aside from 440 other agricultural associations which ship live stock as a branch of their business . The farmers ' cooperative packing - house movement was studied and a press bulletin on ...
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... associations . Several standardization laws , Federal and State , have been enacted during the year . The most significant Federal legislation in this field is the United States Grain Standards Act . Congress also has established the 2 ...
... associations . Several standardization laws , Federal and State , have been enacted during the year . The most significant Federal legislation in this field is the United States Grain Standards Act . Congress also has established the 2 ...
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... associations in general and of many individual breeders . Numbers of breeders have requested that their herds be tested . Compliance with these requests to the extent of the limited funds available has yielded very satisfactory results ...
... associations in general and of many individual breeders . Numbers of breeders have requested that their herds be tested . Compliance with these requests to the extent of the limited funds available has yielded very satisfactory results ...
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... associations are featuring the southern trade , and two of them are holding sales in cooperation with the department . Cattle from southern herds have won the highest honors in northern show rings , and steers from southern feed lots ...
... associations are featuring the southern trade , and two of them are holding sales in cooperation with the department . Cattle from southern herds have won the highest honors in northern show rings , and steers from southern feed lots ...
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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...