 | Sari Edelstein - Needs assessment - 2006 - 982 pages
...1996). The Organic Act of 1862 directed the newly formed Department of Agriculture to "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development" (Kennedy, 1996). In the 1930s, the USDA's focus was on providing... | |
 | Williamjames Hull Hoffer - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...The first section of the bill stated the purpose as well as the mission of the proposed department: "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants."... | |
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Agriculture, was very clear in stating: "...There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United... 
