Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin: Being the Reports of the Various State Officers, Departments and Institutions, Volume 3

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State Printer., 1910 - Wisconsin
 

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Page 6 - Annual Report of the Henry Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Page 8 - ... comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States...
Page 2 - The principal duties of the president shall be to preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors, and to have a general supervision of the affairs of the corporation.
Page 89 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 113 - ... and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page 292 - In the dietary studies made in connection with the nutrition investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 22 - ... them as adulterated, although in fact they are usually of little or no value, and by their use contribute materially to the cost of living without affording the user relief from disease. The sale of cocaine and narcotics is regulated by a stringent law enacted at the 1913 session of the legislature. The enforcement of this law is placed in the hands of the State Board of Pharmacy. It is to be hoped that it will be possible through it to eliminate the illegal use of cocaine, and eventually to...
Page 434 - ... demonstrated at the Laboratory of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of Pennsylvania...
Page 17 - to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States." It is for the "more complete endowment and maintenance " of the experiment stations, presupposing the provision of a working plant and administrative officers. Accordingly, expenses for administration, care of buildings and grounds, insurance, office furniture and fittings, general maintenance of the station farm and animals, verification...
Page 113 - Second, they are of no benefit as a cure-all for diseases of the various classes of live stock; neither do they possess any particular merit in case of specific diseases, or for animals out of condition, off feed, etc., since only a small proportion of ingredients having medicinal value is found therein, the bulk of the foods consisting of a filler which possesses no medicinal properties whatever.

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