Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 476 pages |
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acre agents ALLEN amount animals appropriation assistant boll weevil BOOHER bulletins Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Plant cattle charge chief Congress connection cooperation corn cost cotton crops denatured alcohol Department of Agriculture disease distribution district Doctor DUNLAP Doctor HOWARD Doctor MELVIN Doctor MERRIAM Doctor WHITNEY Doctor WILEY duties ELLIOTT employees examination experiment stations farm farmers FLOOD food and drug Forest Service forestry give Government grain GRAVES Hessian fly HIGGINS inspection inspectors investigations irrigation laboratory land large number lecture matter MCCABE meat ment methods Moss Mount Weather OLMSTED paid Plant Industry POTTER POWELL Professor MOORE question record referee board reference regard request road schools Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WILSON seeds sent SHANAHAN soil soil survey square miles statement Telegraph Company timber tion traveling expenses United wheat ZAPPONE
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Page 92 - An Act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes...
Page 85 - 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 358 - ... the board is thus provided with several separate estimates covering each State and each separate crop, made independently by the respective classes of correspondents and agents of the Bureau, each reporting for a territory or geographical unit with which he is thoroughly familiar.
Page 358 - Secretary, and the reports, with seals unbroken, are immediately placed in the safe in the Secretary's office, where they remain sealed until the morning of the day on which the reports are issued, when they are delivered to the Statistician by the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary. The combination for opening the safe in which such documents are kept is known only to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
Page 359 - Company, who have branch offices in the Department of Agriculture, for transmission to the exchanges and to the press. These companies have reserved their lines at the designated time, and forward immediately the figures of most interest. A mimeograph or multigraph statement, also containing such estimates of condition or actual production, together with the corresponding estimates of former years for comparative purposes, is prepared and sent immediately to exchanges, newspaper publications and...
Page 465 - ... are hereby declared illegal; and no credit shall be allowed to any of the disbursing officers of the United States for payment or allowances in violation of this provision.
Page 476 - That only actual traveling expenses shall be allowed to any person holding employment or appointment under the United States...
Page 72 - Agriculture is necessary, to consider correspondence involving interpretations of the law and questions arising under the law, and to conduct hearings based upon alleged violations of the food and drugs act.
Page 66 - Rules and Regulations for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act was amended as follows: ". . . Acetanilide (antifebrine, phenylacetamide).
Page 96 - Telegrams between the several departments of the government and their officers and agents, in their transmission over the lines of any telegraph company to which has been given the right of way, timber, -or station lands from the public domain shall have priority over all other business, at such rates as the Postmaster-General shall annually fix.