...Congress created the Office of Markets — our parent agency — within USDA and appropriated $50,000 "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States, useful information on subjects concerned with the marketing and distribution of farm products..." Today, AMS services are provided...

...Department of Agriculture, the general design* and duties of vhlch shall be to acquire and to diffuse aanng the people of the United States useful Information on subjects connected with agriculture In the •ost general and comprehensive sense of that word..." It Is In the spirit of this lofty and Important...

...Act of 1862, establishing the Department of Agriculture. The act, as amended, sets forth a mission, "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture and human nutrition, in the most comprehensive and general sense of...

...Department of Agriculture was the act establishing the Department, passed May 15, 1862, " the general 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, in the most general and comprehensive sense of...

...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...

...established the 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...

...established the 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...

...Bureau was incorporated into the newly organized Department of Labor, whose task was "to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor . . . especially upon its relation to capital . . . hours of labor, the earnings of laboring...

...establishment of the USDA. Language in the Act establishing the USDA assigned the USDA responsibility "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the...information on subjects connected with agriculture. rural development. aquaculture. and human nutrition. in most general and comprehensive sense of those...

...had been in the Patent Office.3" The mission of the new department as stated in the enabling act was "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful knowledge on subjects connected with agriculture . . . and to procure, propagate, and distribute...