Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended ...: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, Miscellaneous ReportsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Agriculture |
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... administration ought to be created to secure an increase of produc- tion . These people have seen the windows of cities placarded and papers filled with pleas for conservation , for investment in bonds , and for subscriptions to the Red ...
... administration ought to be created to secure an increase of produc- tion . These people have seen the windows of cities placarded and papers filled with pleas for conservation , for investment in bonds , and for subscriptions to the Red ...
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... Administration in its special tasks . WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT . It would require a volume even to outline all the things which the Department of Agriculture has done . It stimulated production , increasingly controlled plant and animal ...
... Administration in its special tasks . WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT . It would require a volume even to outline all the things which the Department of Agriculture has done . It stimulated production , increasingly controlled plant and animal ...
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... Administration in the handling of grains and in other of its ac- tivities . Its Bureau of Chemistry assisted other departments in preparing specifications for articles needed by them , aided the War Department in the organization of its ...
... Administration in the handling of grains and in other of its ac- tivities . Its Bureau of Chemistry assisted other departments in preparing specifications for articles needed by them , aided the War Department in the organization of its ...
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... Administration , will be realized , at least in weight if not in number of hogs . Poultry and eggs also show a material increase , and enormous quantities of the latter were pre- served by householders in the season of plenty for use in ...
... Administration , will be realized , at least in weight if not in number of hogs . Poultry and eggs also show a material increase , and enormous quantities of the latter were pre- served by householders in the season of plenty for use in ...
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... Administration and by the Army and Navy in connection with their purchases of food supplies . Inspections are now made not only at the request of shippers but also of receivers and other interested parties . Owing to the ever ...
... Administration and by the Army and Navy in connection with their purchases of food supplies . Inspections are now made not only at the request of shippers but also of receivers and other interested parties . Owing to the ever ...
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Page ii - L.. 1895.) [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 71 - I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, together with plans and recommendations for the future.
Page 448 - nursery stock" shall include all field-grown florist stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits and other seeds of fruit, and ornamental trees and shrubs, and other plants and plant products for propagation, except field, vegetable and flower seeds, bedding plants and other herbaceous plants, bulbs and roots.
Page 108 - Carolina; with the Office of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior...
Page 449 - 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...
Page 43 - Union, included provisions especially designed to assist the farming population. It authorized national banks to lend money on farm mortgages and recognized the peculiar needs of the farmer by giving his paper a maturity period of six months. This was followed by the Federal farm loan act, which created a banking system reaching intimately into the rural districts and operating on terms suited to the farm owners
Page 448 - Prohibits the importation from southeastern Asia (including India, Siam, IndoChina, and China), Malayan Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, Philippine Islands, Formosa, Japan, and adjacent islands, in the raw or unmanufactured state, of seed and all other portions of Indian corn or maize (Zea.
Page 480 - ... for enabling the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and certify to shippers the condition as to soundness...
Page 473 - Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
Page 111 - Best results may be expected only when every live-stock owner becomes familiar with the provisions of the accredited-herd plan, which are as follows: METHODS AND RULES FOR ACCREDITING HERDS OF CATTLE. The rules below were unanimously adopted by the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association and by representatives of pure-bred cattle-breeders' associations, and approved December 23, 1917, by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture.