Agricultural Appropriations for 1959, Hearings Before ... 85-2, on H.R. 11767

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Page 742 - ... as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act...
Page 746 - Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 21 - Provided further. That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees, farm animals, farm crops, or other property injured or destroyed...
Page 794 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 740 - Association is authorized to issue, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and have outstanding at any one time obligations having such maturities and bearing such rate or rates of interest as may be determined by the...
Page 550 - ... which (1) if not treated, will impair or endanger the land, (2) materially affect the productive capacity of the land, (3) represent damage which is unusual in character and, except for wind erosion, is not the type which would recur frequently in the same area, and (4) will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance Is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use.
Page 740 - Such action shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides, or has his principal place of business, or, if he does not reside or have his principal place of business within any such judicial district, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Page 679 - The primary source of loan funds of the farm credit system is from the sale in the open market of bonds and debentures which are not guaranteed by the Government either as to principal or interest.
Page 554 - Treatment of farmland to permit the use of legumes and grasses for soil improvement and protection.
Page 751 - I am sure that the members of this committee are aware that funds are also being put into the district program at the State and local level. In fact, the State and local resources over the past 20 years has grown from nothing to one-third of the Federal appropriation for assisting districts. It has been estimated that in 1957 State, county, and local resources put into the soil conservation district program had a value of $25 million.

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