...establishing the Department, passed May 15, 1862, "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of...

...activity in keeping with the statutory responsibility of the Department of Agriculture "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture . . .". Mr. MEDLEY. While APHIS' mandate under the Federal Plant Pest Act and Plant Quarantine...

...dissemination of information. USDA was created by an Act of Congress in 1X62 ..... "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 on the word." Today USDA creates information...

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...Let me try to define it a little better. It means: "The general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire, and to diffuse, among the people of the...States, useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general, and comprehensive sense of that word." I wish I could tell you I phrased...

...define it a little better. It means "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." I did not phrase that description....

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...on the discovery and diffusion of knowledge as the primary function of the new department, which was to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and...

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