Annual reports of the Department of Agriculture. 1895U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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abattoirs Agrostology American cattle American horses Animal Industry appropriation Arbor Day Argentin beef Argentina Australasia average bacon Birkenhead Board of Agriculture Britain Bureau of Animal California fruit Canada carcasses chief condition consumers cost crops demand Department of Agriculture Deptford diseases distribution division eight months ended ended August 31 ended July 31 ended June 30 English market experiment stations exported farm farmers fiscal year 1895 fiscal year ended foreign markets frozen Glasgow growers hundredweights of 112 imported increased investigations June 30 land large number Liverpool London meats months ended August months ended July months of 1895 mutton peaches pears plants pork pounds profitable purchase quantity and value quarantined Scotch Scotch cattle Secretary of Agriculture section 527 seeds September seven months ended shipments shipped soils sold swine Texas fever tion trade trees United Kingdom Values for eight Values for seven Weather Bureau white sage Winesap
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Page 36 - 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 31 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence (if without a sufficient estate), ought to have some profession, calling, trade or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for nor use in establishing offices of profit, the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen...
Page 26 - Purchase and distribution of seeds, plants, etc. [Act of July 23, 1866, 14 Stat. L., 199, 201] SEC. 527. The purchase and distribution of seeds by the Department of Agriculture shall be confined to such seeds as are rare and uncommon to the country, or such as can be made more profitable by frequent changes from one part of our country to another...
Page 7 - The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of annual financial statement required by section 3 of said act of March 2, 1887; shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of said act, and shall make report thereon to Congress.
Page 31 - And if any officer shall wittingly and wilfully take greater fees than the law allows him, it shall ever after disqualify him from holding any office in this state, until he shall be restored by act of legislation.
Page 26 - ... country to another; and the purchase or propagation and distribution of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, and cuttings, shall be confined to such as are adapted to general cultivation and to promote the general interests of horticulture and agriculture throughout the United States.
Page 31 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence, (if he has not a sufficient estate,) ought to have some profession, calling, trade, or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for, nor use in establishing offices of profit ; the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors and expectants ; faction, contention, corruption, and disorder among the people.
Page 33 - ... and unsatisfactory to those who intelligently follow it? How can the 42 per cent of the population of the United States which feeds the other 58 per cent and then furnishes more than 69 per cent of all the exports of the whole people, be making less profits in their vocation than those whom they feed when the latter supply less than 31 per cent of the exports of the country?
Page 30 - ... three persons holding office by appointment of the President and of some 500 laborers and workmen (not skilled) and charwomen, were included in the regularly classified civil service. Of the 500, only 78 laborers are in Washington. Of employees included in the classified service only four are excepted from the rule requiring appointment by competitive examination or by promotion. That order, therefore, put all the educated and skilled force of specialists and scientists, including all the chiefs...