Energy Policy and Strategy for Rural Development: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session -[second Session] .... |
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Page 170 - 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 165 - It shall be the object and duty of the State agricultural experiment stations through the expenditure of the appropriations hereinafter authorized to conduct original and other researches, investigations, and experiments bearing directly on and contributing to the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural industry of the United States, including researches basic to the problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects, and such investigations as have for their purpose...
Page 165 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 165 - 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 174 - USDA programs as well as those in other departments and agencies such as OSHA in the Department of Labor, the Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Energy Research and Development Agency.
Page 170 - We have accumulated in the agricultural colleges and in the Department of Agriculture information which, if made available to the farmers of this country and used by them, would work a complete and absolute revolution in the social, economic and financial condition of our rural population.
Page 170 - ... agencies. This Bill proposes to set up a system of general demonstration teaching throughout the country ; and the agent in the field of the Department and the college is to be the mouthpiece through which this information will reach the people — the man and woman and the boy and girl on the farm.
Page 175 - Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war" — except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.
Page 93 - Chairman, this completes my statement. I will be pleased to attempt to answer any questions the Committee might have.
Page 171 - ... this work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agricultural college or colleges or Territory or possession receiving the benefits of this Act.