 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 general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure,...  Report of the Secretary of Agriculture - Page 205by United States. Department of Agriculture - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1900 - 538 pages
...executive department. The duties of the department of agriculture were (act of 1862): "To acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure and propagate among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." So much... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1900 - 538 pages
...executive department. The duties of the department of agriculture were (act of 1862): " To acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure and propagate among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." THE FIRST... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture. Division of Publications - Agriculture - 1901 - 946 pages
...following provisions : * • * the general design and duties of which [the Department of Agriculture] shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of th;;t word ;ind to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1901 - 502 pages
...1862, established the Bureau of Agriculture, declaring its object to be " to acquire and diffuse . . . useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...most general and comprehensive sense of that word." The subsequent history and present status of this bureau are known to all. The great struggle referred... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - Charities - 1901 - 504 pages
...1862, established the Bureau of Agriculture, declaring its object to be " to acquire and diffuse . . . useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...most general and comprehensive sense of that word." The subsequent history and present status of this bureau are known to all. The great struggle referred... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - Australia - 1902 - 1538 pages
...shall be established, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse amongst the people of the United States useful information...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute amongst the people new and valuable seeds and plants.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Budget - 1970 - 1054 pages
...Statement The Organic Act of 1862, establishing the Department of Agriculture, aet forth a basic mission "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...agriculture In the most general and comprehensive sense of the vork", and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve »n information... | |
 | James Laughlin Hughes, Louis Richard Klemm - Education - 1903 - 558 pages
...education can bo obtained. Besides this the function of the Bureau of Agriculture is " to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds." It likewise... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1905 - 488 pages
...geological survey. VIII. The Department of Agriculture under the Secretary of Agriculture diffuses among the people of the United States useful information...in the most general and comprehensive sense of that term, and procures, propagates and distributes among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.... | |
 | Bernard Moses - United States - 1906 - 446 pages
...was an unassigned bureau. The object of the organization, as defined in the law creating it, was " to diffuse among the people of the United States useful...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."... | |
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