...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...and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure and propagate among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." THE FIRST AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES...

...establish and maintain a great executive department "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...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,"...

...: — "A Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...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....

...1862, an Act was passed creating a Bureau of Agriculture. The purpose was declared to be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...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....

...: — "A Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...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....

...charged especially with carrying out the chief purpose of the Department, which is "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...on subjects connected with agriculture in the most comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and...

...WAS ESTABLISHED ON MAY 15, 1862- CONGRESS DIRECTED THAT THE NEW CABINET AGENCY SHOULD "ACQUIRE AND DIFFUSE AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES USEFUL...AGRICULTURE IN THE MOST GENERAL AND COMPREHENSIVE SENSE OF THAT WORD-* IN 1893, THE DEPARTMENT'S CHARGE WAS MADE MORE SPECIFIC- CONGRESS APPROPRIATED THE FIRST...

...authorized.8 In 1888, the Bureau of the Labor Statistics received its legislative mandate as follows: . . .to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...States useful information on subjects connected with labor .... and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring...

...Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the responsibility of acquiring and diffusing "among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition in the most general and comprehensive sense of...

...education. The Organic Act of 1862. which established the Department of Agriculture, commits the Department to "acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...Information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development..." The Morrlll Act of 1862 and subsequent legislation relating to the land-grant...