Annual Report - Vermont. Agricultural Experiment Station, Burlington, Issues 9-11Free Press Printing Company, 1896 - Agriculture "Condensed outlines of articles published in Reports 1-19, Bulletins 1-133, 1887-1907, [by Joseph L. Hills], "in no. 20 p. 387-505. |
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Page 7 - June 30, 1895; that we have found the same well kept and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the treasurer of the United States are shown to have been...
Page 7 - Dr. To receipts from the Treasurer of the United States, as per appropriation for the fiscal year ending- June 30, 1909, as per act of Congress approved March 2, 1887 $ 15,000.00 Or.
Page 6 - And we further certify that the expenditures have been solely for the purposes set forth in the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1887.
Page 3 - Jersey citizen who is concerned in agriculture, whether farmer, manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province to render, and the Station will respond to all applications as far as lies in its power.
Page 51 - Conidiophores brown, erect or ascending, irregularly curved, solitary or caespitose, septate, diameter uniform, 40-130/1 long by 3/1 wide; conidia dark brown, oblong ovate, minutely apiculate, 9-14/1 wide by 35-90^1 long, endochrome transversely 2-7 septate with usually several longitudinal septa, the apical cell short or elongated into a straight, somewhat hyaline beak. Hab. Fruiting freely in pure cultures; on dead leaves and decaying vegetable matter of all kinds. Isolated from soil of oat field...
Page 18 - A soil can be termed fertile only when it contains all the materials requisite for the nutrition of plants, in the required quantity, and in the proper form. 2. "With every crop a portion of these ingredients is removed. A part of this portion is again added from the inexhaustible store of the atmosphere ; another part, however, is lost forever if not replaced by man.
Page 3 - The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station was established for the purpose of promoting agriculture by scientific investigation and experiment ... to give information on various subjects of agricultural science for the use and advantage of the citizens of New Jersey. It is the wish of the Board of Directors to make the Station as widely useful as its resources will admit.
Page 366 - gravity separator" left in the skim-milk 13 per cent of the fat of the mixed milk, 40 per cent of the fat of the Ayrshire milk, and 17 per cent of the fat of the stripper milk. The centrifugal separator left between 1 and 2 per cent of the fat of these milks behind in the skim milk. The results speak for themselves and call for no further comment.
Page 130 - The garments of laborers, hung up in the field while they are at work, these insects destroy in a few hours ; and with the same voracity they devour the loose particles which the saw leaves upon the surface of pine boards, and which, when separated, are termed saw-dust. The appearance of a board fence, from which the particles had been eaten in this manner, and which I saw, was novel and singular ; and seemed the result, not of the operations of the plane, but of attrition.
Page 367 - The ash content was noticeably higher in the first milking after the trip, and then sunk to the normal. In two cases the effects of fatigue are reported where 10 cows were driven 10 miles and shipped 50 miles by railroad. While considerable individual variation was observed on the average, the quantity of milk was lowered as an immediate result, but normal flow was nearly restored by the end of the second day. The fat percentage dropped during the first day and was decidedly increased the second...