Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Agriculture |
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Page 22 - That the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of agriculture, and the secretary of commerce and labor shall make uniform rules 'and regulations for carrying out the provisions...
Page 58 - Submit to the approval of the governments, if there is occasion for it, measures for the protection of the common interests of farmers and for the improvement of their condition...
Page 2 - In the statement that follows concerning the crop quantities and values for 1908 no figures should be accepted as anticipating the final estimates of this Department to be made later. Only approximations can be adopted, such as could be made by any competent person outside of this Department. CORN.
Page 38 - Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests...
Page 95 - Associations to regulate, promote, and manage the details of selling the products of cooperating farmers are found in all parts of the United States. There is cooperation for selling by fruit growers, vegetable growers, nut growers, berry growers, by live-stock men, by the producers of cotton and tobacco, wheat, sweet potatoes, flax, oats, eggs, poultry, and honey. Farmers cooperate to sell milk for city supply, to sell wool, cantaloupes, celery, cauliflower, citrus fruits, apples, and so on with...
Page 15 - In the herds where the disease existed at the time of treatment 13 per cent of the treated animals succumbed, whereas 74 per cent of the checks died. In view of these successful field tests, and as the method seemed cheap enough to warrant its practical use, invitations were extended to a number of the more important hog-raising States to send representatives...
Page 58 - In the various markets; (b) Communicate to parties interested, also as promptly as possible, all the information just referred to; (c) Indicate the wages paid for farm work; (d) Make known the new diseases of vegetables which may appear in any part of the world...
Page 96 - The progress of farmers in forming and expanding associations of an educational and semi-economic character has made great advances during the period under review. These associations are National in their scope, or are confined to State lines or to sections within States, and are devoted to the interchange of ideas and experiences, the assembling of information for common benefit, the holding of competitive exhibitions of products, the devising of plans for the common good, and business of a like...
Page 95 - Farmers' economic cooperation in the United States has developed enormously during the period under review, and it is safe to say that at the present time more than half of the 6,100,000 farms are represented in economic cooperation; the fraction is much larger if it is based on the total number of medium and better sorts of farmers, to which the cooperators mostly belong.