...nutritive value of the various articles and commodities used for human food, with special suggestion of full, wholesome, and edible rations less wasteful and more economical than those in common use." Under this appropriation the Department has prepared, and now has nearly rrady for...

...with said Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, twenty thousand dollars. IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the laws and institutions relating to irrigation and upon the use of irrigation waters, with especial suggestions...