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" ... or fifteen per cent, less than the food he had eaten in that time; the length of these worms, if laid end to end, would be about fourteen feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. "
Report - Page 312
by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1873
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1859 - 450 pages
...hours, weighing after it twenty-nine dwt., or fifteen per cent, less than the food he had eaten in that time; the length of these worms, if laid end...the earth-worm contains but a small amount of solid nutritious matter, on the twenty-seventh day he was fed exclusively on clear beef, in quantity twenty-three...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

Industrial arts - 1859 - 478 pages
...honrs, weighing after it twenty-nine dwt., or fifteen per eent, less than the food he had eaten in that time; the length of these worms, if laid end to end, wonld be abont fonrteen feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. To meet the objeetion that...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1859 - 348 pages
...honrs, weighing after it twenty-nine dwt., or fifteen per eent, less than the food he had eaten in that time; the length of these worms, if laid end to end, wonld bo abont fonrteen feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. To meet the objeetion that...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 8

United States. Congress. House - United States - 846 pages
...weight in twelve hours, weighing after it twenty-nine dwt., or fifteen per cent, less than the food he had eaten at that time ; the length of these worms,...the earth-worm contains but a small amount of solid nutritious matter, on the twenty-seventh day ho was fed exclusively on clear beef, in quantity twenty-three...
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The American Farmer

John Turner - 1866 - 396 pages
...weight in twelve heurs, weighing after it 29 dwt., or 15 per cent. less thaw the food he had eaten in that time. The length of these worms, if laid end to end, would Ьn about fourteen feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. To meet the objection that the...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 33

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1866 - 854 pages
...was readily eaten it was afterward employed to the gradual exclusion of worms. • As an offset to the objection that the earthworm contains but a small amount of solid nutritions matter, the bird was fed upon the twenty-seventh day exclusively on clear beef, in quantity...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 33

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1866 - 862 pages
...this was readily eaten it'was afterward employed to the gradual exclusion of worms. As an offset to the objection that the earthworm contains but a small amount of solid nutritious matter, tho bird was fed upon the twenty-seventh day exclusively on clear beef, in quantity...
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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...

United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1868 - 620 pages
...in 12 hours, weighing after it 29 pennyweights, or 15 per cent, less than the food he had eaten in that time. The length of these worms, if laid end to end, would be about 14 feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. The question immediately presents itself, how is...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 21

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1868 - 658 pages
...in 12 hours, weighing after it 29 pennyweights, or 15 per cent, less than the food he had eaten in that time. The length of these worms, if laid end to end, would be about 14 feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. The question immediately presents itself, how is...
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Report of the Commisioner of Agriculture for the Year 1867

US Department of Agriculture - 1868 - 606 pages
...in 12 hours, weighing after it 29 pennyweights, or 15 per cent, less than the food he had eaten in that time. The length of these worms, if laid end to end, would be about 14 feet, or ten times the length of the intestines. The question immediately presents itself, how is...
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