...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...most general and comprehensive sense of that word." I did not phrase that description. That comes from the 1862 legislation chartering the people's department,...

...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...most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. (Rasmussen...

...the organic act establishing the Department of Agriculture in 1862: "To acquire and to diffuse among people of the United States useful information on...most general and comprehensive sense of that word. . . " The Office of Communications provides leadership and coordination, along with expertise and counsel,...

...the same objectives, was the Department of Agriculture. Its duties included acquiring and diffusing "information on subjects connected with agriculture...most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants."3 Before...

...established the USDA, Congress called for "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development." Subsequently, nutrition was specified as one such subject. The...

...established the USDA, Congress called for "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development." Subsequently, nutrition was specified as one such subject. The...

...Bureau was incorporated into the newly organized Department of Labor, whose task was "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor . . . especially upon its relation to capital . . . hours of labor, the earnings of laboring...

...now the US Department of Agriculture, it said the Department's "general designs and duties shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word." The Office of Communication! coordinates the implementation of that original mandate. The...

...establishment of the USDA. Language in the Act establishing the USDA assigned the USDA responsibility "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...information on subjects connected with agriculture. rural development. aquaculture. and human nutrition. in most general and comprehensive sense of those...

...had been in the Patent Office.3" The mission of the new department as stated in the enabling act was "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful knowledge on subjects connected with agriculture . . . and to procure, propagate, and distribute...