Proceedings of the Joint Conservation Conference, Washington, D.C., Dec. 8,9,10, 1908, Volume 3 |
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Page 379 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 300 - LO Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, and...
Page 738 - We need to broaden our surveillance and control of pollution in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat.
Page 120 - ... plant-food which the crop needs and the soil fails to furnish. Plants differ widely with respect to their capacities for gathering their food from soil and air; hence the proper fertilizer in a given case depends upon the crop as well as upon the soil. The fertility of the soil would remain practically unchanged if all the ingredients removed in the various farm products were restored to the land. This may be accomplished by feeding the crops grown on the farm to animals, carefully saving the...
Page 764 - ... in said bin or pit. This bin shall be so constructed as to exclude rain water and shall in all other respects be water-tight, except as it may be connected with the public sewer.
Page 241 - British possessions on the north, to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west.
Page 768 - Suddenly, however, a blight fell over all. Was It due to internecine conflict or to foreign conquest? Scarcely ; for history shows that war burns and ravages, but does not annihilate. Thebes was thrice destroyed, but thrice rebuilt. Or was it due to some cause, entering furtively and gradually, sapping away the energies of the race by attacking the rural population, by slaying the new-born infant, by seizing the rising generation, and especially by killing out the fair-haired descendant of the original...
Page 400 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 176 - It has many strains as the result of cultivation under different conditions, but up to the present time very little attention has been given to selecting and adapting varieties to localities.
Page 617 - The economic waste from undue fatigue is probably much greater than the waste from serious illness. We have seen that the average serious illness per capita is usually about two weeks each year. This is about 4 per cent of the year.