...educational arm of the Department of Agriculture, is charged under the Smith-Lever Act "to aid in the diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture, uses of solar energy with respect to agriculture, and home economics, and...

...supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture SEC. 1.1 In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture, uses of solar energy with respect to agriculture,2 home economics, and rural...

...in a given year. The Cooperative Extension network was established by the Smith-Lever Act "to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information" and not the dissemination of USDA policy directives. [GAO COMMENT: See our evaluation on p. 27.] With...

...Act of 1914 established the cooperative extension programs with a simple but very important mandate: "Diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information." The wisdom of the Congress in these three acts, as well as in subsequent legislation and cooperative...

...Agriculture — Appropriation. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Ihe Stale of Indiana, That, in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the State of Indiana, useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture and to promote...

...established the Cooperative Extension Service, stated the purpose of the act as follows: In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same, there may...

...anchored by the enduring charge of Congress in 1914 in Extension's organic legislation: "...to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information. . .and to encourage the application of the same..." Those words of the Smith-Lever Act provide the...

...reached from Washington down to the county level, where it was charged, under the Smith-Lever Act, with "diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics." Instead of becoming a Methodist minister, he had swerved...

...Mission. The first sentence of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 contained a statement of mission: "to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same." Additional...

...Netz öffentlich finanzierter Experimentierstationen zu errichten, die dem Zweck dienen sollten, " to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of the mechanic arts". Auch hier galt der wissenschaftlich-technische Erfolg der Laboratorien von GE,...