Yearbook of agriculture. 1910

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911
 

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Page 201 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 490 - College instruction in agriculture is given in the colleges and universities receiving the benefits of the acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, August 30, 1890, and March 4, 1907, which are now in operation in all the States and Territories, except Alaska. The total number of these institutions is 67, of which 65 maintain courses of instruction in agriculture.
Page 490 - ... for the colored race. All of the agricultural colleges for white persons and several of those for negroes offer four-year courses in agriculture and its related sciences leading to bachelors' degrees, and many provide for graduate study.
Page 2 - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 209 - One of the principal classes of products that have been subjected to thorough inspection because of suspected adulteration is the edible oils. The principal edible oils imported are the olive, sesame, and peanut, the last two mentioned being of little importance in comparison with the first. The value of these products entered at the port of New York for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, was $3,500,000. When the inspection was first begun, several shipments of olive oil adulterated with peanut...
Page 205 - The filing of these papers is called an "entry." The invoice, together with representative portions of the goods, is delivered to the appraiser of merchandise, who classifies the same and fixes the valuation thereof. The major part of the shipment, in the meantime, is released to the consignee under proper bond for its return if needed, a special form of bond being required for food products. It is while the invoice and merchandise are in the possession of the appraiser that the food and drug products...
Page 2 - The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter be submitted and printed in two parts, as follows: Part One, which shall contain purely business and executive matter which it is necessary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress; Part Two, which shall contain such reports from the different bureaus and divisions, and such papers prepared by their special agents, accompanied by suitable illustrations, as shall, in the opinion of the Secretary, be specially suited...
Page 202 - February 15 of each subsequent year, of the board of tea experts, 'who shall prepare and submit to him standard samples of tea.' Section 3 provides that the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the recommendation of said board, 'shall fix and establish uniform standards of purity, quality and fitness for consumption of all kinds of teas imported into the United States...
Page 201 - Act, or is otherwise dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, or is of a kind forbidden entry Into, or forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale In the country In which it is made or from which It Is exported...
Page 30 - That all departments and bureaus belonging to any department, excepting the Department of War and the Department of the Navy, affecting the medical, surgical, biological, or sanitary service, or any questions relative thereto...

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