Agricultural Appropriation Bill for 1950: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3997, a Bill Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1950, and for Other Purposes, [April 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, and 28, 1949] |
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Page 524 - States and which are not intended to be landed thereat, when evidence is presented satisfactory to the inspector of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the Department of Agriculture...
Page 156 - ... (b) The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to make scientific, technologic, and economic investigations of the feasibility of developing domestic sources of supplies of any agricultural material or for using agricultural commodities for the manufacture of any material determined pursuant to section 2 of this Act to be strategic and critical or substitutes therefor.
Page 845 - That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation for the agricultural conservation program for any county may, on the recommendation of such county committee and approval of the State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil Conservation Service for services of its technicians in formulating and carrying out the agricultural conservation program in the participating counties, and...
Page 17 - Federal investigations of watersheds and measures for runoff and waterflow retardation and soil erosion prevention on watersheds shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the Department of Agriculture under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress...
Page 17 - ... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Page 18 - Provided, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior act or joint resolution shall be made: Provided further, That after the regular or formal reports made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless...
Page 43 - W3 indicated in our long-range testimony in 1947, we should be producing and consuming 150,000,000,000 pounds of milk by now instead of something less than 120,000,000,000. If it is necessary to get milk down to the area of 15 cents a quart at retail in order to have maximum consumption, and use production payments to assure farmers of fair returns, I think both farmers and consumers will want to do it.
Page 18 - That no deed or other instrument of conveyance shall be accepted or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture under this Act until the legislature of the state in which the land lies shall have consented to the acquisition of such land by the United States for the purpose of preserving the navigability of navigable streams.
Page 416 - Industry in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering of the Department of Agriculture, is included as part of the amount« in: "Animal husbandry" (p. 19 of bill), "Field crops
Page 602 - January of this year the Department of Agriculture and markets of the State of New York...