Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1912 - Agriculture |
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... Forest Service , employed for brief periods , none exceeding six months . The number of persons receiving probationary ap- pointment ( equivalent to absolute appointment if the appointee is retained in the service after the probationary ...
... Forest Service , employed for brief periods , none exceeding six months . The number of persons receiving probationary ap- pointment ( equivalent to absolute appointment if the appointee is retained in the service after the probationary ...
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... forest - disease survey have indicated that in America timber decay and tree disease are second only to forest fires ... Service . To this end , pathologists have been stationed in four of the six National Forest Districts . In District ...
... forest - disease survey have indicated that in America timber decay and tree disease are second only to forest fires ... Service . To this end , pathologists have been stationed in four of the six National Forest Districts . In District ...
Page 91
United States. Department of Agriculture. stable policy and attain the final goal , forest administration must be developed along technical lines . During the nearly seven years that the Forests have been under my control I have built up ...
United States. Department of Agriculture. stable policy and attain the final goal , forest administration must be developed along technical lines . During the nearly seven years that the Forests have been under my control I have built up ...
Page 92
... Forest Service , materially assisted the work of range management by checking the spread of contagious stock diseases . FIRE PROTECTION . In my report of last year I gave an account of the disastrous fires which took place in the summer ...
... Forest Service , materially assisted the work of range management by checking the spread of contagious stock diseases . FIRE PROTECTION . In my report of last year I gave an account of the disastrous fires which took place in the summer ...
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... Forest Service is supplemented by roads , trails , and telephone lines which are the result of community and private enterprise ; but the fact remains that great parts of the National Forests are most indif- ferently provided with ...
... Forest Service is supplemented by roads , trails , and telephone lines which are the result of community and private enterprise ; but the fact remains that great parts of the National Forests are most indif- ferently provided with ...
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acres adulterated and misbranded amount Animal Industry appropriation breeding brown-tail Bulletin Bureau of Animal Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Plant cattle cents per cubic condemnation and forfeiture continued cooperation corn cost cotton crop cubic yard dairy Decree of condemnation Defendant pleaded guilty Department of Agriculture determine disease distribution Division eastern district eggs examination expenses experiment stations experimental farm farmers feet field fiscal year 1911 food and drugs Forest Service fruit grade grazing important improvement increase Information filed insecticide insects inspection investigations June 30 laboratory land large number Library material ment methods miles milk Missouri Mount Weather National Forest Notice of Judgment obtained pending Pennsylvania practical publications road samples season Secretary of Agriculture seed Shipment of adulterated Shipment of misbranded soil species square yard tests timber tion trees trict tuberculosis United varieties Washington Weather Bureau York
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Page 808 - FIRST. To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States...
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Page 814 - ... annual leave with pay in any one year to each clerk or employee: And provided further, That where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is afflicted with a contagious disease and requires the care and attendance of such employee,- or where his or her presence in the department would jeopardize the health of fellow clerks...
Page 780 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 808 - States in the departments and offices to which any such rules may relate to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modification thereof, into effect. SECOND. And, among other things, said rules shall provide and declare, as nearly as the conditions of good administration will warrant...
Page 803 - Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 808 - ... according to grade from among those graded highest as the results of such competitive examinations. Apportion- Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid in the departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained Application for at the last preceding census.
Page 223 - The following amounts of meat and meat food products were condemned on reinspection during the fiscal year because of having become sour, tainted, putrid, unclean, rancid, or otherwise unwholesome: Beef, 9,566,199 pounds; pork, 9,273,124 pounds; mutton, 137,598 pounds; veal, 54,616 pounds; goat meat, 271 pounds; total, 19,031.808 pounds.
Page 767 - The judgment of the district court was affirmed by the Supreme Court.