Report of the Secretary of AgricultureThe Department, 1908 - Agriculture |
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acres agents Agricultural Experiment Station alfalfa amount Animal Industry Annual Report appropriation Assistant birds boll weevil breeding brown-tail Bulletin Bureau of Animal Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Entomology Bureau of Plant butter C. L. Marlatt California carried cattle cent charge Chief Circular continued cooperation corn cotton cowpeas crop culture Dairy Department of Agriculture determine disease distribution districts Division drainage ending June 30 Entomology examination experimental export extension farm Farmers fertilizers field figs fiscal Forest Service fruit grain important improvement increase inspection investigations irrigation July June 30 laboratory land large number legumes meat ment methods moth Mount Weather National Forests North Dakota nutrition parasites past Plant Industry practical prepared Price Public Roads region Reprint Salton Sea samples secured seed Soil Survey species sugar sugar beets supply tests Texas timber tion tobacco trees tuberculosis United varieties various Washington Weather Bureau wheat
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Page 743 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 747 - An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine...
Page 653 - SEC. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year after the passage of this act the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury as to each State and Territory whether it is complying with the provisions of this act and is entitled to receive its share of the annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations under this act and the amount which thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive.
Page 2 - Section 73, paragraph 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...
Page 763 - Columbia, shall confine the same in cars. boats, or vessels of any description for a period longer than twenty-eight consecutive hours without unloading the same in a humane manner, into properly equipped pens for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of at least five consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm or by other accidental or unavoidable causes which can not be anticipated or avoided by the exercise of due diligence and foresight...
Page 744 - No officer or employee of the United States shall accept voluntary service for the United States or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property.
Page 112 - With all these data before the board, each individual member computes independently, on a separate sheet or final computation slip, his own estimate of the acreage, condition, or yield of each crop, or of the number, condition, etc., of farm animals for each State separately. These results are then compared and discussed by the board under the supervision of the chairman, and the final figures for each State are decided upon.
Page 2 - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 109 - There shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to 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 625 - Insect and Fungous Enemies of the Grape East of the Rocky Mountains.