Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on AppropriationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - Budget |
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acres additional administrative promotions agencies Agricultural Adjustment Act Agricultural Adjustment Administration allotment amount Appropriation Act areas AUCHTER Bang's disease breeding Budget estimate Bureau CANNON Chairman COLLINS commodities Commodity Credit Corporation cooperation cost cotton crops dairy decrease Department of Agriculture determine disease economic effect eradication estimates for 1941 expenditures experiment stations exports extension Farm Credit Administration farmers Federal field fiscal year 1940 following justification Forest Service fruits funds grade HERRICK important improvement increase industry infestation insecticides insects investigations JUMP June 30 JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE laboratory LAMBERTSON land LEAVY livestock ment methods MOHLER national forests Office percent personnel pests plants PLUMLEY problems promotions in accordance Puerto Rico Purnell Act quarantine reduction region REICHELDERFER Salaries Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WALLACE seed SILCOX SKINNER soil soybeans studies TARVER timber tion TOLLEY Total trees United weather wheat
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