Agricultural Appropriation Bill: 1922, Hearing ... 66th Congress. 3d Session1921 - 1035 pages |
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Page 380 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 569 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for these purposes...
Page 113 - For inspection and quarantine work, including all necessary expenses for the eradication of scabies in sheep and cattle, the inspection of southern cattle, the supervision of the transportation of live stock and the inspection of vessels...
Page 558 - Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice, including the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses...
Page 433 - General expenses, Bureau of Soils. — * * * — For examination of soils to aid in the classification of agricultural lands, in cooperation with other bureaus of the department and other departments of the Government, $15,000.
Page 457 - including the study of insects affecting the health of man and domestic animals, household insects, and the importation and exchange of useful insects," and the insertion of the words at the beginning of the item, "The investigation.
Page 335 - For the purchase and maintenance of necessary field,, office,, and laboratory supplies, instruments, and equipments, $130,000.
Page 205 - I do not see how it is going to be possible to do a lot of the things you propose to do.
Page 459 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths by conducting such experiments as may be necessary to determine the best methods of controlling these insects...
Page 420 - For exploration and investigation within the United States to determine possible sources of supply of potash, nitrate^, and other natural fertilizers, there is no change.