Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - Budget |
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acres Administration agencies Agricultural Adjustment Administration agricultural experiment stations amount animals annual APPLEBY areas AUCHTER average Bang's disease Beltsville breeding Budget estimate CANNON cattle chemical Civilian Conservation Corps COLLINS committee commodities Conservation cooperation cost cotton crops dairy Department of Agriculture DIRKSEN disease economic effect employees extension farm Farm Credit Administration Farm Security Administration farmers Federal fertilizer field fire fiscal year 1940 forest lands Forest Service funds GRANGER important improved income increase industry investigations laboratory LEAVY livestock materials ment methods milk MOHLER national forests national-forest Office parity payments percent personnel Plan and progress plants pounds problem production Puerto Rico purchase Purnell Acts range lands regional regional research laboratories rural Salaries and expenses Secretary WICKARD soil Soil Conservation Service studies supply TARVER timber tion Total trails transferred tuberculosis United utilization varieties wheat
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Page 171 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 223 - An Act to provide for research into basic laws and principles relating to agriculture and to provide for the further development of cooperative agricultural extension work and the more complete endowment and support of land-grant colleges, approved June 29, 1935, (Public— No.
Page 183 - States, $20,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the amount obtained from the sale thereof shall be covered into the Treasury of the...
Page 164 - Agriculture for dues for library membership in societies or associations which issue publications to members only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members...
Page 190 - Agriculture ... to conduct research into laws and principles underlying basic problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects; research relating to the improvement of the quality of, and the development of new and improved methods of production of, distribution of, and new and extended uses and markets for agricultural commodities and byproducts and manufactures thereof...
Page 602 - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act, approved November 9, 1921. there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for forest roads and trails...
Page 170 - 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 641 - July 1, 1938, a sum not to exceed $4,000,000 of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 391 of this Act, or section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, for such fiscal year. The Secretary shall allocate one-fourth of such sum annually to each of the four laboratories established pursuant to this section.
Page 388 - Islands; the second zone shall embrace the States of Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky; the third zone shall embrace the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma; the fourth zone shall embrace the States of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri; and the fifth zone shall embrace the States of Montana, Idaho,...
Page 135 - Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other...