Report of the Commission to Study the Condition of the Farmers of Virginia to the General Assembly of Virginia, January, 1930, Volume 181Division of purchase and printing, 1930 - 133 páginas |
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Página 5 - The members of the Commission shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be paid the necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties...
Página 43 - Third. That the association shall not deal in the products of nonmembers to an amount greater in value than such as are handled by it for members.
Página 5 - Commission"). (b) The Commission shall be composed of fifteen members appointed as follows: (A) Four appointed by the President of the Senate from Members of the Senate; (B) Four appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from Members of the House of Representatives...
Página 5 - Lu, eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby appropriated out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of...
Página 106 - This co-operation would also prevent the division and the local demonstrators from working at cross purposes, a thing thnt not infrequently happens under the present arrangement. The present Division of Markets should constitute the proposed Bureau of Markets, with certain changes in the scope and emphasis of its work. It is recommended that the specialists now attached to the division and doing practically the same kind of work as those at the Agricultural College be transferred to the college....
Página 120 - While the evils of bureaucratic and over-centralized control, which frequently accompany state and federal aid, are fully recognized and even deplored, there seems to be no other workable method available at the present time for relief to over-taxed sections except to so develop the system of state and federal aid for both schools and roads that the burden remaining to be carried by the local people would consume about the same percentage of property incomes in all sections of the country. Until...
Página 5 - No. 134; an act to provide for a commission to study the condition of the blind in the State of Virginia, to ascertain their number, both infant and adult, so far as practicable, and the provision made under existing law for their educational and vocational training and assistance, and, to report its findings to the next General Assembly, together with such recommendations...
Página 109 - State. (2) That all extension work with adults done by teachers in vocational schools be in accordance with the plans of the extension system for the State, and in cooperation with the agent who is in charge of the administration of the extension work in the county.
Página 75 - However, by the aid of this power the average agricultural worker has been enabled to increase his volume of production nearly three times over the average of 75 years ago. Power and labor together represent -on the average about 60 per cent of the total cost of carrying on the farm business, and, since these...
Página 77 - Most of the worn-out lands of the world are in their present condition because much of the surface soil has washed away, and not because they have been worn out by cropping.