Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations

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Page 492 - 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 588 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 75 - An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor...
Page 64 - An act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act, entitled '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 19 - That no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast...
Page 470 - That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such expenditures for equipment, supplies, and materials, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and to employ such means as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this Act.
Page 514 - ... at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached therefrom, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, including payment of such fees as will be reasonable and as nearly as may l>e to cover the cost for the service rendered...
Page 237 - 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...
Page 64 - An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an act of Congress approved July 2. 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 57 - Status, $25,000 ; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Bico, the island of Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the amount obtained from the sale thereof shall be covered Into the Treasury of the...

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