...obtain possession of the Forest Service is a historical one, notwithstanding the fact that the forests were transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture partly as the result of recommendations made in 1901 and 1903 by Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of...

...that commission. The question was then raised as to whether or not the Bureau of Reclamation should be transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. But it so happened that one of the members of the commission was Dr. Elwood Mead, since deceased, who...

...• Thus the problem of soil erosion was recognized in national policy. The Soil Erosion Service was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture, renamed the Soil Conservation Service, and enlarged to include those functions already existing in...

...Conservation Service, wherein a rather extraordinary increase is shown. The Soil Conservation Service has been transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. It has been financed by emergency funds. The emergency expenditures will be about $30,000,000 this...

...Conservation Service, wherein a rather extraordinary increase is shown. The Soil Conservation Service has been transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. It has been financed by emergency funds. The emergency expenditures will be about $30,000,000 this...

...Grazing Act (for handling grazing on heretofore unreserved and unregulated lands in Western States) be transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. We believe these measures constitute what might be termed minimam requirements. There may be small...

...of step-by-step developments. "Over thirty-five years ago, when the old -Forest Reserves were being transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture, former Secretary James Wilson, under authority given him by the Act of 1897, laid down the broad basic...

...the Southwest; the remainder were on private land. On March 25, 1935, the Soil Erosion Service was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. On April 1 , 1935, the Service was expanded to include erosion control experiment stations and plant...

...accordance with the act of October 14, 1940, but that under the wording of the act no funds could be transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture to be used for any of the functions vested in the Secretary of Agriculture. Therefore, the proposal...

...public works program. In the year 1935 the function of soil and moisture conservation operations was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture and the Soil Conservation Service in that Department was established. from the Department of Agriculture...