 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1907 - 778 pages
...information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was provided that the head of this Department should be a Commissioner of Agriculture, to hold office... | |
 | Henry Colford Gauss - Executive departments - 1908 - 910 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 Secretary of Agriculture is appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the... | |
 | U.S. Deepartment of Agriculture - 1908 - 268 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. [RS] That the Department of Agriculture, shall bean Execu- Department tive Department, under the supervision... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1908 - 874 pages
...information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." It was provided that the head of this Department should be a Commissioner of Agriculture, to hold office... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Plant Industry - Agriculture - 1908 - 684 pages
...fundamental duties of the Department of Agriculture, as prescribed in the organic law (sec. 520, RS). is to " procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants." (3) The Department of Agriculture soon found that it was impracticable to procure sufficient new seeds... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, Daniel Coit Gilman - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1909 - 970 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." With the progress of agricultural science, scientific branches have been nildeH. until the department... | |
 | U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1912 - 28 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. (Sec. 520, ES) There can be no doubt that the purpose of the earlier legislation for the purchase and... | |
 | Dana Webster Bartlett - Irrigation - 1911 - 630 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." Since its organization, however, the functions of the department have been constantly enlarged by succeeding... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 870 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 scientific and administrative duties have been heaped upon it till it has become not only... | |
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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,... 
