...voted with a Commissioner at its head. According to the organic act, the Commissioner was directed "to acquire and preserve in his Department all information...and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments . . . , by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his...

...comprehensive sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books. . ." The Library was established in the same year by the first Commissioner of Agriculture. Designated...

...Agriculture shall procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture and rural development which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate reco. Js of which experiments shall be kept in his office, by the collection...

...general sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books ..." During the current decade, the Library has evolved from an institution primarily concerned with...

...that word." The Act also gave the Secretary of Agriculture the responsibility to "acquire and preserve all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books. . ." The Department established a Library in 1862 which in 1962 was designated the National Agricultural...

...preserve all information concerning agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition 13 which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate records of wnich experiments shall be kept in his otrice, by the collection of...

...preserve all information concerning agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition 13 which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, accurate records of wliich experiments shall be kept in his otrice, by the collection...

...propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." The Act further directed — "The Commissioner of agriculture to acquire and preserve...and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office), by collection of statistics,...

...to eatabliahing the Department of Agriculture, charges the Commissioner of Agriculture with the duty "...To acquire and preserve in his Department all...and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experimenci,..." This Act initially authorised the Department of Agriculture to perform a research...

...of Agriculture was to be named as the Department's "chief executive officer" whose duties would be to "acquire and preserve in his Department all information...and correspondence, and by practical and scientific experiments, (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office, ) by the collection...