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... cultural Arts and Manufactures and the Pennsylvania Society of Agriculture . Considerable correspondence passed between Americans and Englishmen who were interested in agriculture . Washington was made an honorary member of the British ...
... cultural Arts and Manufactures and the Pennsylvania Society of Agriculture . Considerable correspondence passed between Americans and Englishmen who were interested in agriculture . Washington was made an honorary member of the British ...
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... cultural colleges , experiment stations , for the kind of work that is now bei and the national popularization of truths . He assured Congress that with fare agriculture is of primary importa the country renders the cultivation of the ...
... cultural colleges , experiment stations , for the kind of work that is now bei and the national popularization of truths . He assured Congress that with fare agriculture is of primary importa the country renders the cultivation of the ...
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... cultural Society of Massachusetts in 1817 , " but the measure was defeated on constitutional grounds . Two years later , however , the ideal of national aid to agricultural experimentation was fos- tered through administrative agencies ...
... cultural Society of Massachusetts in 1817 , " but the measure was defeated on constitutional grounds . Two years later , however , the ideal of national aid to agricultural experimentation was fos- tered through administrative agencies ...
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... cultural study . Coincident with this organization of teachable knowledge was the inevitable development of the kind of formal education in which the Office of Experiment Stations is interested . The first bona fide agricultural school ...
... cultural study . Coincident with this organization of teachable knowledge was the inevitable development of the kind of formal education in which the Office of Experiment Stations is interested . The first bona fide agricultural school ...
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... of Illinois ; and James , The 1862 , University of Illinois Studies , Vol . IV That the fears of ecclesiastics as to th cultural students were groundless was indic farmers and the regular graduate studies . Extension work was.
... of Illinois ; and James , The 1862 , University of Illinois Studies , Vol . IV That the fears of ecclesiastics as to th cultural students were groundless was indic farmers and the regular graduate studies . Extension work was.
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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.