 ... to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such as may be worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists.  The New England Farmer - Page 3481862Full view - About this book
 | Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants ; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such...to distribute them among agriculturists. He shall direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated hy Congress to the department, und... | |
 | Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants ; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate such...may be worthy of propagation, and to distribute them amomj agriculturists. He shall direct and superintend the expenditure of all money appropriated by... | |
 | 1875 - 846 pages
...appropriate means; to collect new and valuable seeds and plants; to learn by actual cultivation such of them as may require such tests; to propagate such...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. The Statistician. — He collects reliable information as to the condition, prospects, and results... | |
 | 1875 - 640 pages
...That it shall further be the duty of the Commissioner of the National Sanitary Bureau to make annually a general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, in which he may recommend the publication of papers forming part of, or accompanying his report ; to make special... | |
 | Sylvester W. Burley - Centennial Exhibition - 1876 - 900 pages
...collect, as he maybe able, new and valuable seeds and plants ; to test, by cultivation, the value of such as may require such tests ; to propagate such as may...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists." Of the first Report issued by this department (the one for 1862), 120,000 copies were ordered to be... | |
 | Cabinet officers - 1878 - 748 pages
...appropriate means; to collect new 'and valuable seeds and plants; to learn by actual cultivation such of them as may require such tests; to propagate such...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. The iStntifti'*/an. — He collects reliable information as to the condition, prospects, and results... | |
 | Webster Elmes - Executive departments - 1879 - 692 pages
...is required to collect new and valuable seeds and plants ; to test by cultivation the value of such of them as may require such tests; to propagate such...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. (RS, § 526.) 138«$. He is required to confine the purchase and distribution of seeds by the department... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1880 - 778 pages
...charged in the act establishing it, viz., " to test by cultivation the value of such seeds and plants as may require such tests, to propagate such as may...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists." Time and again it has been asserted that coffee was found growing wild in Florida, but an examination... | |
 | Agriculture - 1882 - 542 pages
...department chargeait with the following duty: "To test by cultivation the value of such seeds and plants as may require such tests, to propagate such as may...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists." To discharge this duty makes it imperative that land should be occupied by the department in various... | |
 | United States board on behalf of U.S. executive depts. at the Internat. exhib, 1876 - 1884 - 510 pages
...collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation, the value of such of them as may require such tests; to propagate such...annually make a general report, in writing, of his 15 CEN, PT 2 225 acts to the President and to Congress, in which lie may recommend the publication... | |
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