...money. The act creating this Department declares as follows: shall be to acquire and diffuse among tbe people of the United States useful information on...among the people new and valuable seeds and plants. But there was no building provided for the Department of Agriculture under that act, and rooms were...

...exposed by the department in its work to enable it to carry out the purpose of its organization, namely, to diffuse among the people of the United States useful...most general and comprehensive sense of that word. All these statutes directly bear upon agricultural industries of the people of the United States, and...

...establishing the Department of Agriculture. The act, as amended, sets forth a mission, "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States...information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture and human nutrition, in the most conprehensive and general sense of...

...design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States information on subjects connected with agriculture,...most general and comprehensive sense of that word." The Commissioner was required by this act to "procure and preserve all information concerning agriculture...

...INFORMATION WORK. The organic act creating the Department of Agriculture not only directs it to " acquire " useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, but also to " diffuse " such information among the people of the United States. To meet this...

...a function made mandatory in the law whereby the institution was created, namely, the diffusion of useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense. The most significant change in information policy restricts the free distribution of bulletins. Technical...

..."hereby established, a Department of Agriculture, designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word." Mr. DURBIN. Wasn't it a President from Springfield, Illinois, who said that? Mr. COLLINS....

...activity in keeping with the statutory responsibility of the Department of Agriculture "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...information on subjects connected with agriculture . . .". Mr. MEDLEY. While APHIS' mandate under the Federal Plant Pest Act and Plant Quarantine Act...

...dissemination of information. USDA was created by an Act of Congress in 1X62 ..... "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful...agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense on the word." Today USDA creates information of use 10 all americans including farmers, and communication...

...Agriculture's role, it is to focus on Mr. Lincoln's instruction "to acquire and diffuse among the people . . . useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word," emphasis on "general and comprehensive." As Secretary of the Department, I have some firsthand...