...government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture and rural development, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and...

...original mandate creating the Department of Agriculture in 1862 required the Department "to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of the terms * * *" The first appropriation...

...government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development,2 aquaculture, and human nutrition 3 in the most general and comprehensive...

...in turn, could make informed food choices. Congress said the new cabinet agency should "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word." That charge was made more specific...

...Department was established in 1862. Congress directed that the new cabinet agency should "acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word." In 1893, the Department's charge...

...diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor .... and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours...laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their materials, social, and intellectual, and moral prosperity." The above examples serve to indicate that...

..."shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means...material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity." Since that time, many statutory requirements have been added for various specific series. The references...

..."shall collect information upon the subject of labor, Its relation to capital, tfct hours of labor, and the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means...promoting their material, social, intellectual, and a»r»l prosperity.* Since that time, many statutory requirements have beec added for various specific...

...Bureau of the Labor Statistic* received its legislative mandate as follows: . . .to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor .... and especially upon its relation to capital, (in hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men...

...1862. When the Deparment was formed, one of the two duties given to it by Congress was 'to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word.' "Historically, information and...