Yearbook of Agriculture

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894

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Página 590 - It seeks to promote the interests of agricultural education and investigation throughout the United States. It collects and disseminates general information regarding the colleges and stations, and publishes accounts of agricultural investigations at home and abroad. It also indicates lines of inquiry...
Página 120 - That in order to secure as far as practicable uniformity of methods and results in the work of said stations it shall be the...
Página 2 - The Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hereafter be submitted and printed in two parts, as follows: Part One, which shall contain purely business and executive matter which It is necessary for the Secretary to submit to the President and Congress...
Página 411 - ... station may adopt or fix standards of purity, quality or strength when such standards are not specified or fixed by statute.
Página 589 - ... collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests...
Página 97 - It occurs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Saskatchewan.
Página 272 - ... school so distant from the farmer's home as to necessitate long journeys and residence at the school for two or more years must necessarily be too expensive for most of the farmers...
Página 269 - ... to farmers and not for the purpose, primarily, of discovering scientific facts; (4) the publication of reading bulletins which shall inspire a quickened appreciation of rural life, and which may be used as texts in rural societies and in the reading courses, and which shall prepare the way for the reading of the more extended literature in books ; (5) the sending out of special agents as lecturers or teachers, or as investigators of special local difficulties, or as itinerant instructors in the...
Página 120 - An annual report by the president of each of said colleges shall be made to the Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, regarding the condition and progress of each college, including statistical information in relation...
Página 268 - ... agricultural knowledge, especially of nature study in the common schools. The itinerant agricultural school is one only of the plans now being tested by this institution. The meetings of these schools last two or more days, at which time certain instructors take up definite lines of instruction, giving by far the greater part of their attention to underlying principles and not to mere facts or methods.

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