...government a Department of Labor. The general duties of the Commissioner of Labor are to acquire anddifluse amongst the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation...

...department of agriculture shall be established, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse amongst the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the word, and to procure, propagate,...

...USDA, Congress called for "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development." Subsequently, nutrition was specified as one such subject. The Smith-Lever...

...USDA, Congress called for "the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development." Subsequently, nutrition was specified as one such subject. The Smith-Lever...

...Organic Act of 1862 directed the newly formed Department of Agriculture to "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected to agriculture and rural development" (Kennedy, 1996). In the 1930s, the USDA's focus was on providing "common-sense...