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... give : first , the history of the establishment and development of the service ; second , its functions , described not in general terms , but by detailing its specific activities ; third , its organization for the handling of these ...
... give : first , the history of the establishment and development of the service ; second , its functions , described not in general terms , but by detailing its specific activities ; third , its organization for the handling of these ...
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... give that knowledge of the organization and operations of their government which must be had if an enlightened public opinion is to be brought to bear upon the conduct of governmental affairs . These studies are wholly descriptive in ...
... give that knowledge of the organization and operations of their government which must be had if an enlightened public opinion is to be brought to bear upon the conduct of governmental affairs . These studies are wholly descriptive in ...
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... give to the States themselves the means of adopting a course of agri- cultural education suitable to the wants and the condition of their respective communities . That is a great advantage and leading feature of the bill . Jefferson ...
... give to the States themselves the means of adopting a course of agri- cultural education suitable to the wants and the condition of their respective communities . That is a great advantage and leading feature of the bill . Jefferson ...
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... give the means for the development of the minds of the masses ; those whose interest it is that the laboring men of the country should be ignorant , should be uneducated and dependent , that their sweat and their tact may be used to ...
... give the means for the development of the minds of the masses ; those whose interest it is that the laboring men of the country should be ignorant , should be uneducated and dependent , that their sweat and their tact may be used to ...
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... give to them their own property , and to direct them how to use it ; and menaces them with its forfeiture , and the reclamation of it by us , if they do not faithfully comply with our instructions and obey our orders . Strict ...
... give to them their own property , and to direct them how to use it ; and menaces them with its forfeiture , and the reclamation of it by us , if they do not faithfully comply with our instructions and obey our orders . Strict ...
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24 Stat 38 Stat acres act approved Act of Congress act of March activities Adams Act administration agencies agri agricul agricultural education agricultural experiment stations Agronomist Alaska American Agricultural Colleges annual appropriation annual report approved July second assistance Ayrshire cattle bill bulletins Bureau Colleges and Experiment Commissioner conducted coöperative agricultural extension coördinate crops cultural Department of Agriculture Director distribution drainage eighteen hundred ending June thirtieth established expenditures Experiment Station Record experimental farm farmers federal funds Guam Hawaii home economics hundred and sixty-two institutions Insular Stations investigations irrigation laboratory Land-Grant Colleges legislature located mechanic arts ment stations Miscellaneous Equipment Morrill Morrill Act national government nineteen hundred nutrition Office of Experiment organization personnel plants Porto Rico practical public lands purposes Relations Service Salaries and Labor schools scientific Secretary of Agriculture soil studies supervision Territorial and Insular tion Treasury United University Virgin Islands
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Page 146 - 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 147 - 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 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 147 - 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 149 - That the grants of moneys authorized by this Act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants...
Page 158 - ... be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
Page 146 - 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.
Page v - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay. 378 pp.
Page 152 - States, to the State or Territorial treasurer, or to such other officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall upon the order of the trustees of the college or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums to the treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to receive the same...
Page 157 - SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Territories for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year, by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Treasury of the United States, { to the State or Territorial Treasurer, or to such officer as shall be designated by the laws of such State or Territory to receive the same, who shall, upon...