Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on AppropriationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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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 - Economics for conducting, either independently or in cooperation with other agencies, investigations of 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, and such economic investigations, including housing and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of the rural home, and for disseminating useful information...
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 - 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, 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,
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 - 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; by introducing and establishing the parasites and natural enemies of these insects and colonizing them within the infested territory; by establishing and maintaining a quarantine against further spread in such...
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.