Program of Work of the United States Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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administrative alfalfa animal husbandry Ante-mortem Assignment.-J. W. T. Duvel Assignment.-R. A. B. P. I. Bulletins B. P. I. Circular breeding Bureau of Plant cattle climatological and crop Cooperation corn cotton culture D. C. Date daily weather forecasts dairy industry Data in B. P. I. Date begun Date begun.-July Demonstration determine diseases distribution district dourine Duvel exemption expenses Experiment Station farm farmers Field Station fiscal year 1914 Forest Service fruits grain growers horse breeding import meats improved inspection and quarantine Investigations Iowa Kans legumes live stock Location Location.-Washington meat inspection Meteorological observations methods miscellaneous national forests neous Object Object.-Same as preceding Object.-To observations and reports Office and Laboratory Plant Industry post-mortem preceding project prepara Preparation and shipping Probable date Probable expenditures Proposed expenditures public markets reports and daily Results river and flood section center seed soil South Carolina South Dakota statutory supervision tests tion and shipping Total varieties various Washington
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Page 25 - AGRICULTURE. The Secretary of Agriculture is charged with the work of promoting agriculture in its broadest sense. He exercises general supervision and control over the affairs of the department and formulates and establishes the general policies to be pursued by its various branches and offices.
Page 27 - CHIEF CLERK. The chief clerk has general supervision of clerks and employees; of the order of business of the department and of records of the Secretary's office; and of expenditures from appropriations for miscellaneous expenses, rents, etc. He is responsible for the enforcement of the general regulations of the department and is custodian of buildings.
Page 143 - Introduction ; general hybridization work ; seed testing; experimental work with collections of citrus and other tropical fruits; propagation of plants for ornamenting the grounds of the department and those of the Weather Bureau, for miscellaneous experimental work, and for special congressional distribution; experimental work with vegetables ; experimental work with florists...
Page 276 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with the authorities of the states concerned, or with individuals, to make such investigations and demonstrations as may be necessary in connection with the development of livestock production in the cane-sugar and cotton districts of the United States, $54,000, of which amount $13,000 shall be available only for the construction of a bridge across Bayou Teche at the New Iberia Livestock Experiment Station, Louisiana.
Page 26 - It gives out to the public press agricultural facts taken from publications, official orders, and also from oral statements of specialists. Material so disseminated is set forth in such form as to attract public attention, be easily understandable, and lead to the adoption of the methods recommended.
Page 276 - Agriculture as the Bureau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Animal Industry, and the Bureau of Dairy Industry.
Page 25 - Secretary, and has charge of the preparation and supervision of all legal papers to which the department is a party, and of all communications to the Department of Justice and to the various officers thereof, including United States attorneys. He examines and approves, in advance of issue, all orders and regulations promulgated by the Secretary under statutory authority. He...
Page 256 - Agriculture to investigate and report upon the organization and progress of farmers' institutes and agricultural schools in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural...
Page 26 - Documents for sale at the price fixed by him; issues, in the form of press notices, official information of interest to agriculturists, and distributes to agricultural and other periodicals and writers synopses of Department publications. LIBRARY. The librarian of the Department library purchases all books and periodicals and supervises their arrangement and cataloguing; prepares for publication...
Page 135 - ... the purchase of land and equipment and the construction of buildings necessary to establish, equip, and maintain an experimental farm in the northern section of the Great Plains area...