There shall be at the seat of government 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 connected with agriculture, in the most... The National Almanac and Annual Record - Page 2661864Full view - About this book
| Webster Elmes - Executive departments - 1879 - 570 pages
...designated as Commissioner of Agriculture. The design of such department, as expressed in the act, is to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. 1379. Although... | |
| Medicine - 1879 - 946 pages
...United States a department of health, 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 with the public health ; to direct the establishment and management of efficient sanitary and quarantine... | |
| De Benneville Randolph Keim - Washington (D.C.) - 1886 - 292 pages
...The Difartmint tf Agrifulturt was established by act of Congress dated May 15, 1861, "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense or that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and... | |
| Frederick George Hilton Price - 1880 - 160 pages
...1862, ' to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on »ubject» 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' Each Annual... | |
| George N. Lamphere - Executive departments - 1880 - 310 pages
...the Commissioner of Agriculture. The general design and duties of this Department are to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. The Commissioner... | |
| Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1883 - 542 pages
...design and duties of thu Government Department of Agriculture are to acquire. and distribute among: the people of the United States useful information...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable plants and seeds. The chief officer... | |
| United States board on behalf of U.S. executive depts. at the Internat. exhib, 1876 - 1884 - 510 pages
...Agriculture. The general designs and duties of the Department, as defined by this act, are "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was made... | |
| United States Centennial Commission - Centennial Exhibition - 1884 - 458 pages
...Agriculture. The general designs and duties of the Department, as defined by this act, are " to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was made... | |
| Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1884 - 504 pages
...established, as declared in the organic act creating the said Department, to-wit, " to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...subjects connected with agriculture In the most general sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds... | |
| Thomas Edie Hill - 1884
...general design and duties of the Government Department of Agriculture are to acquire and distribute among the people of the United States useful information...connected with agriculture in the most general and compi-ehenslve sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and... | |
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