| Nicholas Murray Butler - Education - 1900 - 538 pages
...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...agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure and propagate among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." So much... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1899 - 578 pages
...in Washington contains a section according to which, the aim of that bureau shall be "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to... | |
| United States. Dept. of the Interior - Natural resources - 1900 - 232 pages
...the National Government to establish and maintain a great executive department "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse...most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants," and... | |
| Charles Melville Pepper - Washington (D.C.) - 1900 - 480 pages
...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...most general and comprehensive sense of that word ; and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. For... | |
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