Agricultural Department Appropriation Bill for 1931: Hearing ... 71st Congress, 2d Session |
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acres additional Alaska alfalfa amount animals appropriation birds bollworm BUCHANAN Bureau calcium arsenate California cattle cent construction cooperation corn cost cotton crop dairy DICKINSON disease district Doctor EVANS Doctor KELLERMAN Doctor KNIGHT Doctor MARLATT Doctor MARVIN Doctor MOHLER Doctor REED Doctor TAYLOR Doctor WOODS economic equipment erosion expenses experiment stations farm farmers Federal Federal Farm Board feed fire fiscal year 1930 Forest Service funds gluconic acid going grade hogs Idaho improvement industry insects investigations item of increase KELLEY KITCHEN land lignin livestock MACDONALD ment methods miles Montana national forests necessary needed North Dakota pecan plant present problems production protection purchase Purnell Act purpose REDINGTON region roads and trails SANDLIN Secretary of Agriculture seed SIMMONS soil STUART SUMMERS Texas timber tion TOLLEY trees United Washington wheat wireworms
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Page 81 - An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor...
Page 47 - That in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same...
Page 393 - An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States...
Page 47 - ... and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page 203 - Provided, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property injured or destroyed.
Page 291 - ... people of the United States, to promote the full use for timber growing and other purposes of forest lands in the United States, including farm wood lots and those abandoned areas not suitable for agricultural production, and to secure the correlation and the most economical conduct of forest research in the Department of Agriculture, through research in reforestation, timber growing, protection, utilization, forest economics, and related subjects...
Page 16 - Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate...
Page 203 - For applying such methods of eradication or control of the white-pine blister rust as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, including the payment of such expenses and the employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes...
Page 17 - That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast...
Page 17 - ... compensation was fixed as of July 1. 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade, in the same or different...