 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 858 pages
...among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, and procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants," and that the purchase and distribution of seed shall be confined to such seeds as are " rare and uncommon... | |
 | U.S. department of agriculture Commissioner's OFfice - 1889 - 842 pages
...among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, and procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants," and that the purchase and distribution of seed shall be confined to such seeds as are ' ' rare and... | |
 | Agriculture - 1889 - 860 pages
...among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, and procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." and that the purchase and distribution of seed shall be confined to such seeds as are " rare and uncommon... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1889 - 852 pages
...among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, and procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants," and that the purchase and distribution of seed shall be confined to such seeds as are " rare and uncommon... | |
 | Gardening - 1890 - 838 pages
...come to our agriculture. The clause which defines the Department of Agriculture itself directs that "to procure, propagate and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants " is one of its leading functions. It is well known that the department does little of the sort, at... | |
 | 1891 - 1144 pages
...information on the 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." Isaac Newton was appointed by President Lincoln as the first Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1873.... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1891 - 846 pages
...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." The requirements made of the Commissioner in detail would be too lengthy for this article. He is required... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 504 pages
...information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that term, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was put in charge of a Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1889 Congress made it one of the Executive... | |
 | Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 88 pages
...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." There are 1,200, 000 packages of seeds and 25,000 bulbs, vines and cuttings distributed annually. There... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1895 - 632 pages
...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. But there was no building provided for the Department of Agriculture under that act, and rooms \vere... | |
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Agriculture, the general designs 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,... 
