Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 1179 pages |
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Page 60
... methods are pursued in arriving at certain conclusions in order to test their value . So it is necessary now with respect to those pub- lications to be a little more technical than with the Farmers ' Bulle- tins or the Yearbook ...
... methods are pursued in arriving at certain conclusions in order to test their value . So it is necessary now with respect to those pub- lications to be a little more technical than with the Farmers ' Bulle- tins or the Yearbook ...
Page 61
... methods I have described we have reduced our accumulations of actual departmental publications very much indeed . Mr. DAVIS . Then you think , Mr. Hill , that a committee to investi- gate what should be done with these surplus ...
... methods I have described we have reduced our accumulations of actual departmental publications very much indeed . Mr. DAVIS . Then you think , Mr. Hill , that a committee to investi- gate what should be done with these surplus ...
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... methods are pursued . Sheep binding is sewed by hand , forwarded by hand , and finished by hand , which makes it the ... method used in manufac- turing the book insures longer life than buckram or cloth . The CHAIRMAN . About how long ...
... methods are pursued . Sheep binding is sewed by hand , forwarded by hand , and finished by hand , which makes it the ... method used in manufac- turing the book insures longer life than buckram or cloth . The CHAIRMAN . About how long ...
Page 113
... methods of submitting samples , and report the same in writing to the Chief of the Division of Accounts , with a view to improving the forms and general plan of securing bids . You will notify all bidders by circular letter of your ...
... methods of submitting samples , and report the same in writing to the Chief of the Division of Accounts , with a view to improving the forms and general plan of securing bids . You will notify all bidders by circular letter of your ...
Page 115
... methods submits herewith its report on the standardization and method of purchase of Department supplies . This subject had much attention from the Dockery Commission in 1893. On its recommendation section 3709 , Revised Statutes , was ...
... methods submits herewith its report on the standardization and method of purchase of Department supplies . This subject had much attention from the Dockery Commission in 1893. On its recommendation section 3709 , Revised Statutes , was ...
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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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Page 816 - ... list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and file the lists and descriptions with the Secretary of the Interior, with the request that the said lands be opened to entry in accordance with the provisions of the homestead laws and this Act.
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Page 167 - ... thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient...