Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture on Bills Having for Their Object the Eradication of the Cotton-boll Weevil and Other Insects and Diseases Injurious to Cotton |
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Page 379 - Columbia, $64,300 ; and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required under the above acts, ascertain whether the expenditures are in accordance with their provisions...
Page 185 - Act, or is otherwise dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, or is of a kind forbidden entry Into, or forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale In the country In which it is made or from which It Is exported...
Page 427 - States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate from time to time such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important: and in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 427 - Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments ; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important ; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 379 - Agriculture to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes and agricultural schools in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice...
Page 321 - Engineering, the Bureau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Animal Industry, the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, and the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md.
Page 11 - ... [pleuro-pneumonia and other dangerous contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases], and to certify such rules and regulations to the executive authority of each State and Territory, and invite said authorities...
Page 185 - Agriculture reports to him have been inspected and analyzed and found to be dangerous to health, or which are forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported...
Page 185 - ... shall make a request upon the Secretary of the Treasury for samples from original packages of such articles for inspection and analysis ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to open such original packages and deliver specimens to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose mentioned, giving notice to the owner or consignee of such articles, who may be present and have the right to introduce testimony...
Page 411 - States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions...