Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1912 - Agriculture |
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Page 52
... given one dose of the serum , and the remaining 8 were left untreated . All the hogs were then placed together in one pen , the experiment extending from July 23 to September 17. The result was that the 4 inoculated hogs as well as the ...
... given one dose of the serum , and the remaining 8 were left untreated . All the hogs were then placed together in one pen , the experiment extending from July 23 to September 17. The result was that the 4 inoculated hogs as well as the ...
Page 57
... given it a new importance . Studies are under way which should lead to a more thorough knowledge of the causes and the means of control . Investigations on the diseases of sweet potatoes have been inaugu- rated and substantial progress ...
... given it a new importance . Studies are under way which should lead to a more thorough knowledge of the causes and the means of control . Investigations on the diseases of sweet potatoes have been inaugu- rated and substantial progress ...
Page 69
... given to the methods . of handling grain on the farm , in elevators and warehouses , and by transportation companies , including a study of the changes which take place in grain while in storage or during transit in cars or steamships ...
... given to the methods . of handling grain on the farm , in elevators and warehouses , and by transportation companies , including a study of the changes which take place in grain while in storage or during transit in cars or steamships ...
Page 73
... given . them by this department . WORK OF THE FIELD STATIONS AT THE RECLAMATION PROJECTS . The opening of the reclamation projects to settlement has disclosed many problems of a local character which must be solved before these projects ...
... given . them by this department . WORK OF THE FIELD STATIONS AT THE RECLAMATION PROJECTS . The opening of the reclamation projects to settlement has disclosed many problems of a local character which must be solved before these projects ...
Page 75
... given to the relation of crops to the general distribution of labor on the farm . An important phase of the work of farm management has to do with the problems of the farmer or the application of all the data secured to the individual ...
... given to the relation of crops to the general distribution of labor on the farm . An important phase of the work of farm management has to do with the problems of the farmer or the application of all the data secured to the individual ...
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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...
Page 770 - If, when a drug is sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation...
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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.