Staff Study No.1-[19].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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... Percentage Negro population was of total population , 1930 , and percentage of total State allotments from various Federal funds allocated to Negro land - grant colleges in 17 Southern States , fiscal year ended June 30 , 1936 _---- 4 ...
... Percentage Negro population was of total population , 1930 , and percentage of total State allotments from various Federal funds allocated to Negro land - grant colleges in 17 Southern States , fiscal year ended June 30 , 1936 _---- 4 ...
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... Percentage of agents ' and specialists ' time devoted to various projects in cooperative extension work , by year , 1928 to 1936__ 85 16. Percentage of time devoted to junior extension work by 7,597 extension workers , by State , fiscal ...
... Percentage of agents ' and specialists ' time devoted to various projects in cooperative extension work , by year , 1928 to 1936__ 85 16. Percentage of time devoted to junior extension work by 7,597 extension workers , by State , fiscal ...
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... percent of the persons born on farms in the United States have been released for occupations other than farming.1 In 1790 , approximately 95 percent of the population of the United States was rural ; in 1930 , 44 percent was rural ...
... percent of the persons born on farms in the United States have been released for occupations other than farming.1 In 1790 , approximately 95 percent of the population of the United States was rural ; in 1930 , 44 percent was rural ...
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... percent of all workers were engaged in agriculture.3 Despite the fact that the number of people in the United States has increased nearly 40 percent since 1910 , there were in 1937 about 1 percent fewer persons on farms than in 1910 ...
... percent of all workers were engaged in agriculture.3 Despite the fact that the number of people in the United States has increased nearly 40 percent since 1910 , there were in 1937 about 1 percent fewer persons on farms than in 1910 ...
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... percent of their young people to urban centers . Educational provisions for the rural population should meet their needs as fully as do those for other groups in the population . Such education as far as practicable should train them to ...
... percent of their young people to urban centers . Educational provisions for the rural population should meet their needs as fully as do those for other groups in the population . Such education as far as practicable should train them to ...
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Page 30 - 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 11 - State, which may take and claim the benefit of this act to 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 such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 121 - An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 121 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year...
Page 16 - Provided, that no money shall be paid out under this act to any state or territory for the support and maintenance of a college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of students...
Page 112 - And be it further enacted, that all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land-scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 15 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 16 - ... instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction : Provided, That said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts : Provided.
Page 112 - That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they '-* may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 30 - ... the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act, out of any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to...