Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 Contains administrative report only. |
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acres Alaska amount Animal Industry appropriation average birds breeding brown-tail bulletins Bureau of Animal Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Plant butter carried cattle cent continued cooperation corn cost cotton crop cubic yards dairy demonstration Department of Agriculture determine disease distribution district Division dourine eggs established examination expenses experiment stations experimental farm farmers feet field food and drugs Forest Service fruit funds fungicides grade important improved increase insecticides insects inspection investigations irrigation June 30 laboratory land large number larvæ Library material ment methods miles milk miscellaneous Mount Weather National Forest North Carolina North Dakota obtained past Plant Industry pounds practically prepared present publications purchase quarantine road Salaries samples season Secretary of Agriculture seed sheep soil species sugar supply tests thrips timber tion total number trees tuberculosis United varieties various Weather Bureau weevil
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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 224 - This is logical, for all food products, most of the raw materials for clothing, and many of the materials used for shelter are supplied by agriculture, and it is as important to study their use as their production, since the two are interdependent. The Department of Agriculture not only helps the farmer to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, but also, through its studies of the use of agricultural products as food, helps the housekeeper in her efforts to make one dollar do the work...
Page 2 - L., 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 - His duties as defined by the act were " to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes 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 of the experiment stations and of improved methods of agricultural practice.
Page 681 - Departments; prepares letters of authority; writes, for the signature of the Secretary, all letters to the Treasury Department pertaining to fiscal matters; examines and signs requisitions for the purchase of supplies; issues...
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 230 - State legislatures upon the importance of promoting the cultivation of timber and the preservation of forests.
Page 263 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.