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Page 368 - ... percentage of nitrogen, and assimilate a comparatively small amount of it over a given area. Yet nitrogenous manures have generally a very striking effect in increasing the growth of such crops. The highly nitrogenous leguminous crops, on the other hand, such as beans and clover...
Page 643 - ... no sodium. From the outcome of the experiments the author concludes; " These results clearly show that sodium may fill a very important function in case of a deficiency in potassium and that it is therefore not to be regarded as an altogether useless plant constituent." Extensive field experiments " On the substitution of soda for, and its value in connection with, potash " have been carried on at the Rhode Island Experiment Station9 since 1894. At the beginning, potash and soda were substituted...
Page 417 - The Canada goose is equally watchful and wary of anything which threatens the safety of the flock. Audubon' says " in keenness of sight and acuteness of hearing they are perhaps surpassed by no other bird.
Page 128 - ... driven by hand or belt, and so arranged as to cause an upright shaft to revolve to a speed of 8000 revolutions per minute, corresponding to 50 revolutions per minute of the crank or pulley wheel. To this upright shaft is fastened an attachment by means of which two funnelshaped receptacles of one liter capacity each, may be secured and made to revolve with the shaft.
Page 430 - ... believe must have been domesticated for a long period. The uncertainty that has existed as to its correct name and really native country may be one cause of this. Like the Jews, or the Gipsies, it has not been allowed to claim a place among the natives of any one region ; and like many others furnished with a variety of aliases, it ends by being altogether excluded from society. The old writers call it the Guinea Goose, for the excellent reason, as Willughby hints, that in his time it was the...
Page 636 - Annual Report on Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths, in the State of, 1902.
Page 211 - Growth of Various Plants upon an Upland Acid Soil Before and After Liming. On the Substitution of Soda for, and its Value in Connection with, Potash. On the Fungous Parasites of the Apple and Pear. Infectious Disease of Turkeys.
Page 642 - Turkeys. Experiments with ; Management of, by Successful Producers ; Wild Turkey Crosses, Their Desirability, and Where They may be Obtained 42 "
Page 124 - ... meadow, even every individual weed which grows among the grain of his field and the useful plants of his garden; for these also, regarded from the physiological point of view, belong to the ''total production
Page 640 - " 11. The State Fertilizer Law as it is and as it might be. Commercial Valuations of Fertilizer Stock. Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers. State Inspection, 1891. Analyses of Miscellaneous Materials. Meteorological Summary 20 * "