Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 1179 pages |
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Page 127
... cotton statistics , so that they could be identified immediately when they came in . Mr. ZAPPONE . Yes ; so that the postmaster here at Washington could pick them out readily , and send them at once to the Depart- ment in a confidential ...
... cotton statistics , so that they could be identified immediately when they came in . Mr. ZAPPONE . Yes ; so that the postmaster here at Washington could pick them out readily , and send them at once to the Depart- ment in a confidential ...
Page 130
... Cotton boll weevil investigations : Bureau of Plant Industry .. 105,556 Bureau of Entomology Building , Department of Agri - ƒ 250,000 37,660.00 9,800.00 10 , 200.00 18,000.00 8 , 660.00 19,100.00 9,000.00 190,000.00 84 , 444 94 ...
... Cotton boll weevil investigations : Bureau of Plant Industry .. 105,556 Bureau of Entomology Building , Department of Agri - ƒ 250,000 37,660.00 9,800.00 10 , 200.00 18,000.00 8 , 660.00 19,100.00 9,000.00 190,000.00 84 , 444 94 ...
Page 159
... cotton - seed meal , and that is in order to determine if possible the causes of deaths in hogs after feeding this meal for several months . The CHAIRMAN . Do you devote any time to the development of the breeding of horses and cattle ...
... cotton - seed meal , and that is in order to determine if possible the causes of deaths in hogs after feeding this meal for several months . The CHAIRMAN . Do you devote any time to the development of the breeding of horses and cattle ...
Page 171
... cotton seed for food , which they do not have north , except as it is shipped north . The CHAIRMAN . Cotton seed is an article of merchandise that goes pretty well over the entire country , is it not ? Doctor MELVIN . But it is more ...
... cotton seed for food , which they do not have north , except as it is shipped north . The CHAIRMAN . Cotton seed is an article of merchandise that goes pretty well over the entire country , is it not ? Doctor MELVIN . But it is more ...
Page 255
... cotton in the cotton region , and so on . The CHAIRMAN . How long has the Department been engaged in the development of breeding of plants ? Doctor GALLOWAY . About twelve years . The CHAIRMAN . Is this the same line of development that ...
... cotton in the cotton region , and so on . The CHAIRMAN . How long has the Department been engaged in the development of breeding of plants ? Doctor GALLOWAY . About twelve years . The CHAIRMAN . Is this the same line of development that ...
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amount animals annual appropriation ASHION assistant boll weevil building BURCH Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Plant cattle Census cent CHAIRMAN character charge chemical chief clerk committee Congress connection copies cost cotton course crop Department of Agriculture disease distribution division Doctor GALLOWAY Doctor HOWARD Doctor MELVIN Doctor MERRIAM Doctor TRUE Doctor WILEY documents duties efficiency employees estimate examination expenditures expense experiment stations fact farmers FERGUSON fiscal forest reserves Forest Service give Government grade GRAYSON Grazing HILL increase inspection instance investigations kind labor laboratory land matter ment methods Miss CLARK OLMSTED Philippine PINCHOT Plant Industry practically printed produce Professor MOORE Professor WHITNEY promotion proposition purpose question record salary SAMUEL Secretary of Agriculture seed Senate sheep simply soil Special privileges statistics statutory roll stenographer thing Timber sales tion Total Treasury Washington weevil Witness ZAPPONE
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