Agricultural Appropriation Bill, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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acre alfalfa amount ANDERSON animals appraisement appropriation average bale beef BRAND Bureau cantaloupes carried cattle cent CHAIRMAN citrus canker commission committee cooperative corn cost cotton county agents cows crops dairy demonstration Department of Agriculture disease expenses experiment stations fact farm farmers Federal foot-and-mouth disease FORTIER fungicides future contracts give GOLDBECK Government grade growers HALL HAUGEN HAYWOOD HEFLIN HELGESEN hogs HOWELL increase industry insecticides investigations Iowa KELLERMAN kind KNAPP Lever Act live-stock loans lump fund matter MCLAUGHLIN MELVIN ment North Dakota Office of Markets organization PEIRCE PENNYBACKER plants practically proposition pure-food law question REILLY road RUBEY salary Secretary HOUSTON Secretary of Agriculture sell ship shipments silos SMITH South Carolina spot markets standards statement STEELE thing THOMPSON tion TRUE WILSON
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Page 7 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 7 - An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto.
Page 10 - 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 9 - States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page 8 - Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments ; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important ; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 9 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 8 - That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means ofthe station will permit.
Page 9 - That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any state before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the secretary of the treasury.
Page 10 - That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation...
Page 8 - ... artificial. with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of...