...established in 1862. Congress directed that the new Cabinet agency should "acquire and 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." In 1893, the Department's charge...

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

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

...established the Department of Agriculture, commits the Department to "acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development..." The Morrlll Act of 1862 and subsequent legislation relating to the...

...Department was formed, one of the two duties given to it by Congress was 'to acquire and 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.' "Historically, information and...

...products. When the Department was established in 1862, its major duty was to "acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture." The Commissioner of Agriculture was given the duty to "acquire and preserve all information...

...establishing the Department of Agriculture. The act sets forth a mission, "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture 1n the most comprehensive and general sense of the word,* and placed upon the Secretary...

...of Agriculture, the "general designs and duties" of which would 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, propagate, and...

...Statutory Requirements Met by the Program: "The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information....labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and the means of promoting their prosperity ..." (29 USC 1). B. Legislated Uses of the Program's...

...Lincoln signed legislation creating the US Department of Agriculture, ". . .to acquire and 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. . . " Five days later, Lincoln...