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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... efforts in everv undertaking . The authorities and staffs of the agricultural colleges in every State of the Union placed their facilities 10 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . Cooperation of official agencies.
... efforts in everv undertaking . The authorities and staffs of the agricultural colleges in every State of the Union placed their facilities 10 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . Cooperation of official agencies.
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... placed their facilities at the disposal of the Department , supported its efforts and plans with the utmost zeal , and omitted no opportunity , on their own initiative , to adopt and prosecute helpful measures and to urge the best ...
... placed their facilities at the disposal of the Department , supported its efforts and plans with the utmost zeal , and omitted no opportunity , on their own initiative , to adopt and prosecute helpful measures and to urge the best ...
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... placed on the forests approximately 1,000,000 additional head of live stock , representing about 25,000,000 pounds of beef , 16,000,000 of mutton , and 4,000,000 of wool . The season of 1918 strikingly illustrated the advantages which ...
... placed on the forests approximately 1,000,000 additional head of live stock , representing about 25,000,000 pounds of beef , 16,000,000 of mutton , and 4,000,000 of wool . The season of 1918 strikingly illustrated the advantages which ...
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... placed in 15 additional cities . This service consists largely of reports on local market conditions and prices based on daily observations and is conducted primarily for the benefit of growers and consumers , though it is also very ...
... placed in 15 additional cities . This service consists largely of reports on local market conditions and prices based on daily observations and is conducted primarily for the benefit of growers and consumers , though it is also very ...
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... placed under quarantine by the State and the growing of cotton in these districts prohibited for a period of three years or longer . The eradication operations of last fall and winter included the in- fested and noninfested cotton ...
... placed under quarantine by the State and the growing of cotton in these districts prohibited for a period of three years or longer . The eradication operations of last fall and winter included the in- fested and noninfested cotton ...
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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.