Agricultural Appropriations for 1951: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1951

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950 - 1471 pages
 

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Page 361 - ... the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family...
Page 468 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 688 - Obligations insured by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to the BankheadJones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended (relating to the conservation of water resources), or sections 1471-1485 of Title 42, shall be subject under this section to a limitation of 15 per centum of such capital and surplus in addition to such 10 per centum of such capital and surplus.
Page 519 - That hereafter all moneys received as contributions toward cooperative work in forest investigations, or the protection and improvement of the national forests, shall be covered into the Treasury and shall constitute a special fund, which is hereby appropriated and made available until expended, as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct...
Page 518 - Forest is situated, to be expended as the State legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such National Forest is situated...
Page 51 - The Administrator is authorized and empowered, from the sums hereinbefore authorized, to make loans for the purpose of financing the wiring of the premises of persons in rural areas and the acquisition and installation of electrical and plumbing appliances and equipment.
Page 467 - ... demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of reforestation and of growing, managing, and utilizing timber, forage, and other forest products, of maintaining favorable conditions of water flow and the prevention of erosion, of protecting timber and other forest growth from fire, insects, disease, or other harmful agencies, of obtaining the fullest and most effective use of forest lands, and to determine and promulgate the economic considerations which should underlie the establishment of sound...
Page 518 - Legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve is situated...
Page 146 - It is also the intent of Congress to assure agriculture a position in research equal to that of industry, which will aid in maintaining an equitable balance between agriculture and other segments of our economy.
Page 467 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary in order to determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of eradication, suppression, or bringing under control...

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