Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1912 - Agriculture |
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Page 42
... attention has been given to frost warnings in the spring , principally in the cranberry marshes of Massachusetts , in the citrus- fruit districts of Florida , and in a number of the orchard sections of Washington , Oregon , Idaho , Utah ...
... attention has been given to frost warnings in the spring , principally in the cranberry marshes of Massachusetts , in the citrus- fruit districts of Florida , and in a number of the orchard sections of Washington , Oregon , Idaho , Utah ...
Page 49
... attention . Investigations were carried on pertaining to changes in storage butter , and experiments were made with a view to producing dried cultures for use in butter and cheese making . The results of the Roquefort cheese ...
... attention . Investigations were carried on pertaining to changes in storage butter , and experiments were made with a view to producing dried cultures for use in butter and cheese making . The results of the Roquefort cheese ...
Page 54
... attention . The results of the past season's work . have confirmed the previous report of absolute success in controlling the serious " blight " of coniferous seedlings by slight and perfectly practicable changes in the management of ...
... attention . The results of the past season's work . have confirmed the previous report of absolute success in controlling the serious " blight " of coniferous seedlings by slight and perfectly practicable changes in the management of ...
Page 55
... attention to working out this problem , in active cooperation with the Forest Service . To this end , pathologists have been stationed in four of the six National Forest Districts . In District 5 great progress has been made in so ...
... attention to working out this problem , in active cooperation with the Forest Service . To this end , pathologists have been stationed in four of the six National Forest Districts . In District 5 great progress has been made in so ...
Page 56
... attention , and they have increased greatly in the Western States . The extreme climatic conditions of the season have resulted in more injury by the new combination sprays of lime - sulphur and lead arsenate , but nevertheless these ...
... attention , and they have increased greatly in the Western States . The extreme climatic conditions of the season have resulted in more injury by the new combination sprays of lime - sulphur and lead arsenate , but nevertheless these ...
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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.