Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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... disease , and its existence and the danger to be apprehended from it were little noticed . As soon as the attention of the Board was called to it , active measures were taken to interest the Legislature so far as to secure an appro ...
... disease , and its existence and the danger to be apprehended from it were little noticed . As soon as the attention of the Board was called to it , active measures were taken to interest the Legislature so far as to secure an appro ...
Page 9
... disease was rapidly spreading from herd to herd ; and every day , every hour , increased the diffi- culty and the expense of checking it . It was through the efforts of the Board that a cattle commission was created , and clothed with ...
... disease was rapidly spreading from herd to herd ; and every day , every hour , increased the diffi- culty and the expense of checking it . It was through the efforts of the Board that a cattle commission was created , and clothed with ...
Page 34
... disease in the cabbage family known as " club - root : " its appearance is too well known to need description , but its nature is little understood . It is the practice of gardeners to plant the cabbage only one year in three or four ...
... disease in the cabbage family known as " club - root : " its appearance is too well known to need description , but its nature is little understood . It is the practice of gardeners to plant the cabbage only one year in three or four ...
Page 42
... disease and death , not only in the vegetable , but in the animal kingdom . The germ - theory of disease has now become an accepted theory ; and we are in- clined to believe that most of the contagious diseases to which humanity is ...
... disease and death , not only in the vegetable , but in the animal kingdom . The germ - theory of disease has now become an accepted theory ; and we are in- clined to believe that most of the contagious diseases to which humanity is ...
Page 51
... disease among my spinach , very much resembling , in my judgment , the mildew on lettuce , although I can discover nothing that looks like mildew . I have got a great deal of spinach sown , and that which I sowed earliest , with the ...
... disease among my spinach , very much resembling , in my judgment , the mildew on lettuce , although I can discover nothing that looks like mildew . I have got a great deal of spinach sown , and that which I sowed earliest , with the ...
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