Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1912 |
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... pounds of meat and meat food products that had become unwholesome or otherwise unfit for food since the inspection at the time of slaughter . Inspection certificates issued for exports of meat and meat food products during the year ...
... pounds of meat and meat food products that had become unwholesome or otherwise unfit for food since the inspection at the time of slaughter . Inspection certificates issued for exports of meat and meat food products during the year ...
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... pounds of water , and about 300 pounds of the most nutritious and appetizing food material of the flesh of the birds is dissolved out and goes down the sewer . The keeping time of “ wet packed " birds is also much shorter than that of ...
... pounds of water , and about 300 pounds of the most nutritious and appetizing food material of the flesh of the birds is dissolved out and goes down the sewer . The keeping time of “ wet packed " birds is also much shorter than that of ...
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... pounds per acre as compared with 4,091 pounds for seven check plats of ordinary timothy . Corn - breeding work with two different varieties resulted in each instance in a gain of about two weeks in earliness or time of maturing . Oat ...
... pounds per acre as compared with 4,091 pounds for seven check plats of ordinary timothy . Corn - breeding work with two different varieties resulted in each instance in a gain of about two weeks in earliness or time of maturing . Oat ...
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... pounds in 1896 to 637,055,556 pounds in 1911. Not all of this advance has been due to the department's introduction work , but the industry received an impetus at that time that has gone far toward making it what it represents to - day ...
... pounds in 1896 to 637,055,556 pounds in 1911. Not all of this advance has been due to the department's introduction work , but the industry received an impetus at that time that has gone far toward making it what it represents to - day ...
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... Pounds reinspected in their various preparations , over____ Pounds condemned on reinspection , over__ . Pounds exported under certificates , over .. Veterinary inspectors and assistants , over _ - _ . 321 , 000 , 000 900 , 000 4,500,000 ...
... Pounds reinspected in their various preparations , over____ Pounds condemned on reinspection , over__ . Pounds exported under certificates , over .. Veterinary inspectors and assistants , over _ - _ . 321 , 000 , 000 900 , 000 4,500,000 ...
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Page 249 - 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 376 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather : for the sky is red.
Page 2 - I*, 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 33 - March tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, or any subsequent decisions or instructions of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 215 - Agriculture to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes and agricultural schools in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice...
Page 248 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture in cooperation with the Postmaster General in improving the conditions of roads to be selected by them over which rural delivery is or may hereafter be established...
Page 204 - ... sold or offered for sale in the District of Columbia or the territories, or...
Page 379 - The moon and the weather May change together; But change of the moon Does not change the weather. If we'd no moon at all, And that may seem strange, We still should have weather That's subject to change. "Notes and Queries.
Page 193 - With all these data before the board, each individual member computes independently, on a separate sheet or final computation slip, his own estimate of the acreage, condition, or yield of each crop, or of the number, condition, etc., of farm animals for each State separately. These results are then compared and discussed by the board under the supervision of the chairman, and the final figures for each State are decided upon.
Page 379 - When the stars flicker in a dark background, rain or snow follows soon. When the stars begin to huddle, The earth will soon become a puddle.