...functions are expressed by statute as : « To acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants » ; but...

...Department of Agriculture under the Secretary of Agriculture diffuses among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture...in the most general and comprehensive sense of that term, and procures, propagates and distributes among the people new and valuable seeds and plants....

...act of Congress was approved which created the Department of Agriculture, the duties of which were to diffuse "useful information on subjects connected...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds ana plants."...

...designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word..." This law, very broad in scope, has remained the basic authority of the Department for...

...Dedicated by the Act creating it to the acquisition and diffusion "among the people of the United States of useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," and with current holdings of 1,300,000 bound volumes, it serves a broad public, both within...

...Agriculture, set forth a basic mission "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information...

...Agriculture , set forth a basic mission "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture In the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information...

...established on May 15, 1862 (7 USC 22201), "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms. . •" This charge became more specific 84 years later in the Research and Marketing Act...

...Agriculture, set forth a basic mission "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information...

...Agriculture, set forth a basic mission "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," and placed upon the Secretary the responsibility to "procure and preserve all information...