Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First[-second] Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Agriculture |
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Page 164 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 55 - Here a national interest of very nearly the first magnitude is involved. It can be protected only by national action in concert with that of another power. The subjectmatter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein. But for the treaty and the statute there soon might be no birds for any powers to deal with. We see nothing in the Constitution that compels the Government to sit by while a food supply is cut off and the protectors...
Page 1 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 2 - An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor", approved June 7, 1924 (USC, title 16, sees.
Page 10 - Second, That the association does not pay dividends on stock or membership capital in excess of 8 per centum per annum. And in any case to the following: Third. That the association shall not deal in the products of nonmembers to an amount greater in value than such as are handled by it for members.
Page 11 - Agriculture shall have reason to believe that any such association monopolizes or restrains trade in Interstate or foreign commerce to such an extent that the price of any agricultural product is unduly enhanced by reason thereof...
Page 161 - Sec. 3. to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...