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... financial statements showing its appropriations , expenditures and other data for a period of years ; and finally , a full bibliography of the sources of information , offi- cial and private , bearing on the service and its operations ...
... financial statements showing its appropriations , expenditures and other data for a period of years ; and finally , a full bibliography of the sources of information , offi- cial and private , bearing on the service and its operations ...
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... Financial Statements 7. Bibliography Index PAGE 113 114 115 . 115 116 . 116 • 117 117 118 119 119 • 119 120 120 · 121 · 122 122 122 123 124 124 • 125 125 126 126 127 130 132 140 143 . 163 . 168 . 175 THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS ...
... Financial Statements 7. Bibliography Index PAGE 113 114 115 . 115 116 . 116 • 117 117 118 119 119 • 119 120 120 · 121 · 122 122 122 123 124 124 • 125 125 126 126 127 130 132 140 143 . 163 . 168 . 175 THE OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS ...
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... annual message to Congress on December 7 , 1796 . His suggestions might well have been interpreted to include agri ... Report , 1866 , p . 514 . ' A historical sketch of the United States Agricultural Society is minuted in the annual ...
... annual message to Congress on December 7 , 1796 . His suggestions might well have been interpreted to include agri ... Report , 1866 , p . 514 . ' A historical sketch of the United States Agricultural Society is minuted in the annual ...
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... Annual Report , 1851 , p . 39. After 1862 the presidents of private colleges in Illinois organized in opposition to the establishment of a state university . They desired to divide the federal aid among them , and they feared that a ...
... Annual Report , 1851 , p . 39. After 1862 the presidents of private colleges in Illinois organized in opposition to the establishment of a state university . They desired to divide the federal aid among them , and they feared that a ...
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... annual report of " any improvements and experiments made . " The need for a national Office of Experiment Stations and the precedents for the future growth of its functions , may be traced among the antecedents of the Morrill Act and in ...
... annual report of " any improvements and experiments made . " The need for a national Office of Experiment Stations and the precedents for the future growth of its functions , may be traced among the antecedents of the Morrill Act and in ...
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Page 153 - 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 149 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 144 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts...
Page 153 - An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of an act of congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture,
Page 143 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page 145 - 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 153 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year...
Page 31 - 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 145 - An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 144 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.