Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 32Brookings Institution, 1924 - United States |
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... field is being performed by different services , and thus furnish the information that is essential to a consideration of the great question of the better distribution and coördination of activities among the several departments , estab ...
... field is being performed by different services , and thus furnish the information that is essential to a consideration of the great question of the better distribution and coördination of activities among the several departments , estab ...
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... field of administration or research , such as the promotion , protection and regulation of the maritime interests of the country , the planning and execution of works of an engineering character , or the collec- tion , compilation and ...
... field of administration or research , such as the promotion , protection and regulation of the maritime interests of the country , the planning and execution of works of an engineering character , or the collec- tion , compilation and ...
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... fields of work for the Office of Experiment Stations , were early established in the colonies . Through government aid , great handicaps were overcome . Besides Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry , which had been published in England in ...
... fields of work for the Office of Experiment Stations , were early established in the colonies . Through government aid , great handicaps were overcome . Besides Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry , which had been published in England in ...
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... field experiments . This Mississippi survey was made the basis of the work of the California experiment station in 1874 , when the first building of that station was erected at the University of California . The first college to apply ...
... field experiments . This Mississippi survey was made the basis of the work of the California experiment station in 1874 , when the first building of that station was erected at the University of California . The first college to apply ...
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... field was well prepared for a nation - wide movement for national aid , and for a national agency to assist in the coördination of the work of the state stations for the benefit of the whole nation as well as for the local sections ...
... field was well prepared for a nation - wide movement for national aid , and for a national agency to assist in the coördination of the work of the state stations for the benefit of the whole nation as well as for the local sections ...
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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 145 - 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 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...
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Page 31 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and 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.
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