Yearbook of The United States Departament of Agriculture 1919 |
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000 omitted Acreage Alabama animals Argentina Association Austria-Hungary Aver Average Beef Belgium Breeders breeding Bureau Bushels California Canada cattle cellar census cooperative corn cotton countries county agent crop disease Dollars Dutch East Indies ending June 30 estimated exports Farm price Farm value farmers Federal feed figures Forest France fruits Germany grade grain growers harvest herds High hogs horses Idaho important increase inspection Iowa January-June July July-December June 30 Kansas live stock Long tons machine meat methods Mexico Michigan Minnesota Missouri Montana Netherlands North Carolina North Dakota Ohio operations plants plowing Pork potatoes practice prelim price per bushel production purchase purebred Quantity reports roads rural Russia seed Sept sheep shipments Short tons skins South sugar supply swine TABLE Texas tion tobacco tons Total trap trees United Kingdom Utah vegetable Virginia wheat Winesap Wisconsin yield per acre
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Page 2 - STAT., 612.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 291 - What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely ; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.
Page 207 - That 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...
Page 285 - ... TUBERCULOSIS-FREE HERDS. Many inquiries have been made with a view to obtaining reliable information as to the comparative value of cattle known to be free from tuberculosis and those the health of which is not definitely known. Many breeders and live-stock owners will not introduce animals into their herds unless they are reasonably certain that no tuberculosis exists in the herds from which the animals are taken. To such owners an animal of doubtful health has no intrinsic Value and they will...
Page 583 - Jan. 15 Feb. 15 Mar. 15 Apr. 15 May 15 June 15 July 15 Aug. 15 Sept. 15 Oct. 15 Nov. 15 Dec. 186 186 186 188 188 188 190 190 190 192 192 192 1 2 3...
Page 57 - ... stimulate larger production and better marketing, promote a fuller and more attractive rural life, add greatly to the convenience and economic welfare of all the people, and strengthen the national foundations. (7) The Federal Reserve Act, which authorized national banks to lend money on farm mortgages and recognized the peculiar needs of the farmer by giving his paper a period of maturity of six months. (8) The Federal Farm Loan Act, which created a banking system reaching intimately into the...
Page 28 - ... There will be farmers enough if the business of farming is made profitable and if rural life is made attractive and healthful. The consumers must be willing to pay prices for farm products which will enable farmers to produce them and to maintain a satisfactory standard of individual and community life. The Nation also must be prepared to omit nothing to improve the countryside. It is of the first importance that satisfactory schools, with courses of study related to the problems of rural life,...
Page 48 - July 11, 1916, is hereby amended to provide that the term "rural post roads," as used in section 2 of said act, shall be construed to mean any public road a major portion of which is now used, or can be used, or forms a connecting link not to exceed ten miles in length of any road or roads now or hereafter used for the transportation of the United States mails, excluding...
Page 3 - Weather Bureau CHARLES F. MARVIN. Chief. Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief. Bureau of Dairy Industry OE REED, Chief.
Page 480 - They are then folded in the middle, hung lengthwise over a line, hair side out, and left to dry. When both surfaces are barely dry and the interior is still moist they are laid over a smooth, rounded board and scraped on the flesh side with the edge of a worn flat file, or a similar blunt-edged tool. In this way an inner layer is removed and the skins become nearly white in color. They are then stretched, rubbed, and twisted until quite dry. If parts of a skin are still hard and stiff, the soaping,...