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... present study is one , giving a detailed description of each of the fifty or more distinct services of the government . These studies are being vigorously prosecuted , and it is hoped that all services of the gov- ernment will be ...
... present study is one , giving a detailed description of each of the fifty or more distinct services of the government . These studies are being vigorously prosecuted , and it is hoped that all services of the gov- ernment will be ...
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... present University of Michigan and stipulated that " there shall be a department of agriculture , with competent instructors in the theory of agriculture , including vegetable physiology and agricultural chemistry , and experimental and ...
... present University of Michigan and stipulated that " there shall be a department of agriculture , with competent instructors in the theory of agriculture , including vegetable physiology and agricultural chemistry , and experimental and ...
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... present literary colleges need have no more jealousy of agri- cultural colleges than a porcelain manufactory would have of an iron foundry . They move in separate spheres , with competition , and using no raw material that will diminish ...
... present literary colleges need have no more jealousy of agri- cultural colleges than a porcelain manufactory would have of an iron foundry . They move in separate spheres , with competition , and using no raw material that will diminish ...
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... present day uses was evidently Yale . Improving upon its courses , which had been established in 1846 , it announced in 1863 that the Connecticut legislature had assigned to the Sheffield Scien- tific School the proceeds from the land ...
... present day uses was evidently Yale . Improving upon its courses , which had been established in 1846 , it announced in 1863 that the Connecticut legislature had assigned to the Sheffield Scien- tific School the proceeds from the land ...
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... present conducted , the results of investigations at state stations are usually promulgated by publications which have a very limited distribution , and even where work in a single state is of a character which makes its con- clusions ...
... present conducted , the results of investigations at state stations are usually promulgated by publications which have a very limited distribution , and even where work in a single state is of a character which makes its con- clusions ...
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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.