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Department and Agriculture
The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency located within the Department of Agriculture, supervises and coordinates a cooperative credit system for agriculture.
Available, on request, from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D.C., are: Cooperative Farm Credit Can Assist In Rural Development ( Circular No. 44 ), and The Cooperative Farm Credit System ( Circular No. 36-A ).
In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.
Georgia's Department of Agriculture is intensifying its fire ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading pest.
Agriculture Department economists estimate the Government this year will hand farmers $1.4 billion in special subsidies and incentive payments, well above the record $1.1 billion of 1958 and about double the $639 million of 1960.
The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.
The Advances to Settlers Act of 1894 provided low-interest motgages, while the Agriculture Department disseminated information on the best farming methods.
Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The United States Department of Agriculture and its myriad agencies such as the Agricultural Marketing Service are the primary sources of regulatory activity, although other administrative bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency play a significant regulatory role as well.
Under current United States law, bio-agents which have been declared by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U. S. Department of Agriculture to have the " potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety " are officially defined as " select agents ".
Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective
After the proper facilities had been built and the personnel hired to make such a change, the U. S. Department of Agriculture issued an injunction and refused to allow Creekstone to buy the kits necessary to test.
Economist Paul Krugman commented that the incident showed that " the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith in free markets ," at least for the Department of Agriculture at the time.
The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.
Cheddar cheese is one of several products used by the United States Department of Agriculture to track the dairy industry ; reports are issued weekly detailing prices and production quantities.
The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.
His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.
MyPyramid Food Guidance System is the result of extensive research performed by the United States Department of Agriculture to revise the original Food Guide Pyramid.
However, the findings of these staff members were criticized, as they were performed mostly by economic entomologists inherited from the United States Department of Agriculture, whom many environmentalists felt were biased towards agribusiness and tended to minimize concerns about human health and wildlife.
Gifford Pinchot had been appointed by McKinley as chief of Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture.
United States Department of Agriculture | USDA Food guide pyramid | Food Pyramid
* United States Department of Agriculture, USDA Economic Research Service: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America.
In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated French fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

Department and Philippines
* Bureau of Corrections ( Philippines ), an agency of the Department of Justice of the Philippines
The base was used for rest and recreation for U. S. military personnel and the dependents of U. S. military personnel in the Philippines as well as Department of Defense employees and their dependents.
The Foreign relations of the Philippines are administered by the President of the Philippines and the nation's Department of Foreign Affairs.
Of Taft's appointment, Roosevelt said, " If only there were three of you ; I could appoint one of you to the Court, one to the War Department and one to the Philippines.
While serving as the War Secretary Taft generally concentrated on major developments, including the Philippines and the Panama Canal, to the detriment of departmental housekeeping problems, including factionalism within the Department, of which Roosevelt was aware.
Shafter returned to command the Department of California where he oversaw the supplying of the expedition to the Philippines under Major General Wesley Merritt.
In the Philippines, the Department of Education abolished the requirement of school uniforms in public schools per DepEd Order No. 45, s. 2008.
* Department of National Defense ( Philippines )
* Department of Energy ( Philippines )
* Department of Labor and Employment ( Philippines )
* Department of Justice ( Philippines )
In the Philippines, the Philippine Coast Guard ( PCG ) is a maritime law enforcement agency operating under the Department of Transportation and Communications of the Philippine government.
By the Philippines Department of Health ’ s Administrative Order 2008-0221, all mercury equipment from hospitals, including mercury-in-glass thermometers, will be phased out in the Philippines by September 28, 2010.
The Philippine Department ( Philippine Garrison -- The Battling Bastards of Bataan ) was a regular US Army unit, defeated in the Philippines, during World War II.
In September 1940, Wainwright was promoted to Major General ( temporary ) and returned to the Philippines, in December, as commander of the Philippine Department.
That same day, the War Department created the USAFFE command, with jurisdiction over the Philippine Department and the military forces of Commonwealth of the Philippines ( seemingly principally the Philippine Army, with 2 regular and 10 reserve divisions ).
The air forces in the Philippines were a component of the Army's Philippine Department, and like the Air Corps in the continental United States, operated under split authority.
The senior Air Corps officer in the Philippines was Col. Harrison H. C. Richards, the Department Air Officer.

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