 | Kenneth White Munden, Henry Putney Beers - History - 1986 - 744 pages
...records of which experiments shall be kept in his office, ) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power; to collect,...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. " The Commissioner was to "receive and have charge of all the property of the agricultural division... | |
 | Tod F. Stuessy, S. H. Sohmer - Science - 1996 - 318 pages
...With the establishment of the USDA in 1862, the commissioner of agriculture was specifically directed "to collect, as he may be able, new and valuable seeds...worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturalists" (Hyland 1984:7). In 1898 the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction was created and... | |
 | L. B. Adams - History - 1999 - 390 pages
...shall be kept in his office) by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means in his power, to collect, as he may be able, new and...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists." He is also to employ "chemists, botanists, entomologists, and other persons skilled in natural science... | |
 | Roy L. Brooks - History - 2004 - 364 pages
...Department charged it with acquiring and preserving "all information concerning agriculture" and collecting "new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation,...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists.". . . In 1889, the Department of Agriculture achieved full cahinet department sratus. Today, it has an... | |
 | Michael T. Martin, Marilyn Yaquinto - Social Science - 2007 - 732 pages
...Department charged it with acquiring and preserving "all information concerning agriculture" and collecting "new and valuable seeds and plants; to test, by cultivation,...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists." An Act to establish a Department of Agriculture, ch. 71, 12 Stat. 387 (1862). In 1889, the Department... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - Canada - 1884 - 698 pages
...records of which experiments shall be kept in his office), by the collection of statistics, and by any other appropriate means within his power ; to collect,...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. He shall annually make a general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, in... | |
 | Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1867 - 732 pages
...records of which experiments shall be kept in his office), by the collection of statistics and by any other appropriate means within his power ; to collect,...propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. He shall annually make a general report in writing of his acts to the President and to Congress, in... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1885 - 422 pages
...appropriate means ; to collect " now and valuable seeds and plants, to learn by actual cultivation il such of them as may require such tests ; to propagate...propagation, and to distribute them among' " agriculturists." Then comes the Statistician of the department, whose business it is to collect reliable information... | |
 | 1877 - 858 pages
...other 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 as maybe worthy of propagation, and to distribute them among agriculturists. of the cereal, cotton, and... | |
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... to acquire and preserve in his department all information concerning agriculture which he can obtain by means of books and correspondence and by practical and scientific experiments (accurate records of which experiments shall be kept in his office),... 
