Extension Service Oversight: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, February 17, March 9 and 10, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 420 pages |
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4-H program Accomack County Administration agencies appropriate assistance BROWN budget Chairman citizens clientele committee community garden Congress conservation Cooperative Extension Service county Extension Department of Agriculture distributed dollars earmarked educational programs effort evaluation extension agent Extension home Extension Homemakers Extension programs extension staff Extension system Extension's Fairfax County farm farmers Federal Extension Federal funds fiscal formula going gram groups home economics important increase Integrated Pest Management involved issues land land-grant colleges land-grant institutions land-grant university leadership marketing meet ment million mission Morrill Act National Extension needs operations organization oversight hearings partnership percent pesticide population priorities problems production question residents ROBERTS of Kansas role Rural Development serve sion Smith-Lever Act statement subcommittee Thank things tion U.S. Department urban gardening program USDA Virginia Virginia Tech volunteers WAMPLER youth
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Page 66 - That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said col' leges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise...
Page 115 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 115 - State may propose and report to the Secretary of the Interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this act between one college for white students and one institution for colored students...
Page 35 - Cooperative agricultural extension work was established by the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, as amended. The legislation authorizes the Department of Agriculture to give, through the Land-Grant Colleges, instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics and related subjects and to encourage the application of such information by means of demonstrations, publications, and otherwise to persons not attending or resident in the colleges.
Page 115 - ... established, and is now aided by such State from its own revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 288 - State agencies, to aid farmers through advice, education, demonstrations, and other similar means in establishing, renewing, protecting, and managing wood lots, shelter belts, windbreaks, and other valuable forest growth, and in harvesting [,] utilizing, and marketing the products thereof.
Page 197 - Extension should continue its traditional educational role of supplying unbiased factual information, but should avoid taking pro or con positions on public issues.
Page 265 - FINDING AND DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence, in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, of labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general wellbeing of workers...
Page 2 - Cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics and subjects relating thereto to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting information on said subjects through demonstrations, publications, and otherwise and...
Page 115 - Interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this Act between one college! for white students and one institution for colored students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and paid accordingly, and thereupon such institution for colored students shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act and subject to its provisions, as much as it would have been if it had been included under the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfillment of...