Pamphlets on Forestry, Volume 2

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1914

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Page 2 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 40 - But the work exhibits the results of such thorough and discriminating research, such a valuable marshaling of the facts of our military history, and such sound and ably,reasoned conclusions drawn from those facts as to the defects and needs of our military system, that it clearly ought to be made available for the study of our officers and for the information of all who may be charged with shaping our military policy in the future.
Page 6 - Porto Rico, or to Canada, Cuba, or Mexico. To other countries the regular rate of postage is charged, and remittances must cover such postage.
Page 19 - We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 6 - Congressional documents, and is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge the distribution of which is not specifically directed.
Page 20 - The greater number of them are sold by the Superintendent of Documents, located in the government printing office. The government did not establish this sales office for the purposes of profit, but as a public convenience. The prices charged cover only paper and printing, no charge being made for the services of the statesmen and scientists who are the authors of the astonishingly varied books, pamphlets, periodicals, and maps, and no commissions being allowed to anybody. The documents even have...
Page 1 - Moat, fresh and cured. — 4. Fish, fish products, and oysters.— 5. Butter and other fat-yielding foods.— 6. Cereal grains.— 7. Bread and other cereal foods.— 8. Sugar and similar foods.— 9. Roots and succulent vegetables.— 10. Legumes and corn.— 11. Fresh and dried fruits.— 12. Fruit and fruit products. — 13. Nuts and nut products.— 14.
Page 6 - Office amounts to over a million, of which several hundred thousand are assorted, forming the sales stock. Many rare books are Included, but under the law all must be sold "at cost," regardless of their age or scarcity.
Page 14 - It employs thousands of scientists, who are engaged the year round in making researches and investigations in all branches of agriculture, in geology, in mining, in electricity, in chemistry, in astronomy, in engineering, in aviation, in preventive medicine, in forestry, in irrigation, and almost all other branches of scientific inquiry.

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