Report of the Secretary of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 Contains administrative report only. |
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Página 81 - RECENT FEDERAL LEGISLATION Among the acts passed at the last session of Congress was a measure (S. 4746) authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and publish statistics of the grade and staple length of cotton covering both the current crop and the carryover, and limiting to five the number of reports to be issued on the condition, progress, and probable number of bales of the current crop. Another act passed affecting cotton (S. 4974) amended the cotton futures act by providing that...
Página 81 - AN ACT To safeguard the distribution and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive acids, alkalies, and other substances in interstate and foreign commerce.
Página 40 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make investigation not otherwise provided for, of the causes of soil erosion and the possibility of increasing the absorption of rainfall by the soil in the United States, and to devise means to be employed in the preservation of soil, the prevention or control of destructive erosion and the conservation of rainfall by terracing or other means, independently or in cooperation with other branches of the Government, State agencies, counties, farm organizations,...
Página 64 - Provided, That in any State where the weighing of livestock at a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized department or agency of the State, the Secretary, upon application of such department or agency, may register it as a market agency for the weighing of livestock received in such stockyard, and upon such registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be amenable to all the requirements of this...
Página 68 - Special attention has been given during the last year to the estabhshment of abaca production on a commercial scale in tropical America. The entire world supply of abaca fiber, with the exception of a few hundred bales, is produced in the Philippine Islands. With a decreasing supply of labor, and increasing competition from coconuts and other crops, the Philippine production of abaca is barely holding its own and is not keeping pace with the world demand for this fiber. Two diseases of abaca, that...
Página 40 - Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices in commerce, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article in commerce, or of restraining commerce...
Página 23 - Agricultural problems in the readjustment period naturally centered more on prices and markets than on production. Accordingly, the department greatly expanded its economic work. A departmental reorganization effected in 1921 greatly increased the department's ability to provide information to the farmers as a guide in production and marketing. Under this reorganization plan three separate bureaus that formerly handled economic subjects independently were consolidated. These were the Bureau of Markets,...
Página 65 - Agriculture, after public hearing, determines that seed of alfalfa or red clover from any foreign country or region is not adapted for general agricultural use in the United States, he shall publish such determination.
Página 49 - USC 541-545), and for collecting and disseminating to American producers, importers, exporters, and other interested persons information relative to the world supply of and need for American agricultural products, marketing methods, conditions, prices, and other factors, a knowledge of which is necessary to the advantageous disposition of such products in foreign countries, independently and in cooperation with other...
Página 100 - The Adams Act, approved March 16, 1906 (USC, title 7, sec. 369), appropriates $15,000 per annum to each State for the more complete endowment and maintenance of the State agricultural experiment stations, "to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States.