That there is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of 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... The American Year Book - Page 470edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
| John Spencer Walters - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...and duties" of the Department of Agriculture, as stated clearly in its originating statute, "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." Notwithstanding this unequivocal... | |
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...Department of Agriculture in 1862, it said the department's "...general designs and duties 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 the word." The Office of Communications... | |
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