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... Green's standand rain - gauge , fisty square inches surface , and a set of weather signals . All the above instruments were made by Mr. H. E. Green , of New York City , and were accompanied by his certificates of correction . For ...
... Green's standand rain - gauge , fisty square inches surface , and a set of weather signals . All the above instruments were made by Mr. H. E. Green , of New York City , and were accompanied by his certificates of correction . For ...
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... green and growing throughout the summer and fall months , and even in winter . For these reasons it is a most valuable grass for lawns . It does not stand drougth well , and for this reason is not a desirable grass for localities where ...
... green and growing throughout the summer and fall months , and even in winter . For these reasons it is a most valuable grass for lawns . It does not stand drougth well , and for this reason is not a desirable grass for localities where ...
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... green and produced in abundance , making it a desirable grass for grazing . Like the last named it does best on low , moist ground , and is most desirable as a pasture grass on wet irrigated fields . At the Nebraska Station it is ...
... green and produced in abundance , making it a desirable grass for grazing . Like the last named it does best on low , moist ground , and is most desirable as a pasture grass on wet irrigated fields . At the Nebraska Station it is ...
Page 10
... green color . The leaves and stalks are tender and animals are fond of it . It was sown here April 23 , 1889 , and made a fine heavy growth the first year . This year the growth was fair , but variable , and it bloomed June 10th to 15th ...
... green color . The leaves and stalks are tender and animals are fond of it . It was sown here April 23 , 1889 , and made a fine heavy growth the first year . This year the growth was fair , but variable , and it bloomed June 10th to 15th ...
Page 11
... green than Tall Fescue , but not so thick on the ground nor so tall . Festuca elatior ( Tall Fescue ) . This is a perennial grass , growing to a height of two to four feet , usually tufted or growing in clumps , or bunches , becoming ...
... green than Tall Fescue , but not so thick on the ground nor so tall . Festuca elatior ( Tall Fescue ) . This is a perennial grass , growing to a height of two to four feet , usually tufted or growing in clumps , or bunches , becoming ...
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ABSTRACT Agricultural Experiment Station alfalfa amount of seed analysis annual report apple Board of Control Board of Regents Botany broom corn Bulletin Carson cent Clover Codling moth corn crop Date December 31 Director drilled Early Rose Early Sunrise ending June 30 eyes F. H. HILLMAN Fair farm farmers favor feed feet Ferry field fiscal year ending flesh forage plants fruit GERMAN OR FRENCH given grain Grass growing grown growth Henderson hereby certify Hulless inches insects irrigation June 30 laboratory land larvæ Latin Lithophane medium NATHANIEL E Nevada Agricultural Experiment Nevada State University oats orchard ounces plats plot pods potatoes pounds per acre practical R. H. MCDOWELL received Reno Washoe Respectfully ripened rows samples School season SECOND TERM smooth smut soil sorghum sown stalks submitted sucrose sugar beets THIRD TERM tion Total varieties vitriol Washoe Washoe Washoe weight wheat White Australian yield
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Page 46 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
Page 41 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page 46 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 41 - State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private...
Page 42 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 17 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 42 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the state to which it belongs...
Page 48 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 46 - States commissioner of agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important; and in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will be"st promote the purposes of this act.
Page 41 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...