| 2005 - 1324 pages
...the law establishing USDA in 1862, it said the new Department's "general designs and duties shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United...States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word." OC delivers information about... | |
| Sari Edelstein - Needs assessment - 2006 - 982 pages
...public (Kennedy, 1996). The Organic Act of 1862 directed the newly formed Department of Agriculture to "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development" (Kennedy, 1996). In the 1930s, the USDA's focus was on providing... | |
| 2005 - 1112 pages
...Agriculture in 1862, it said the department's "...general designs and duties 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 the word." The Office of Communications... | |
| John Spencer Walters - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...Department of Agriculture, as stated clearly in its originating statute, "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." Notwithstanding this unequivocal... | |
| Williamjames Hull Hoffer - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...of the bill stated the purpose as well as the mission of the proposed department: "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 the word, and to procure, propagate, and... | |
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