...information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that term, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was put in charge of a Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1889 Congress made it one of the Executive...

...Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall design and duties. ^e jQ acqujrg an(j diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to...

...the Patent Office, and in 1862 Congress established the "Department of Agriculture" "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." There are 1,200, 000 packages of seeds and 25,000 bulbs, vines and cuttings distributed annually. There...

...of government a department of labor, the general design and duties of which shall bo to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to...

...organic law of the Department also provides that its general design and duties shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations...

...approved June 13, 1888. It is placed in charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected wrth labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation...

...Department of Labor. The general duties of the Commissioner of Labor are to acquire anddifluse amongst the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to...

...United States Department of Agriculture, the geueral designs and duties of which shall he to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. But there was no building provided for the Department of Agriculture under that act, and rooms \vere...

...United States Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among tlie people new and valuable seeds and plants. But there was no building provided for the Department...

...Activities. In compliance with the mandate of the law which created the Department of Agriculture, to " diffuse among the people of the United States...most general and comprehensive sense of that word," the extension activities of the department take various forms. There are now about 4,000 persons employed...