Annual report of the Office of Experiment Stations. 1904U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 |
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... past year aggregated 393 annual reports and bulletins , and a total of more than 6,400,000 copies of them was distributed to over 685,000 addresses on the regular mail- ing lists . The stations also published and distributed over ...
... past year aggregated 393 annual reports and bulletins , and a total of more than 6,400,000 copies of them was distributed to over 685,000 addresses on the regular mail- ing lists . The stations also published and distributed over ...
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... past year have taken a wide range and included laboratory tests of the efficiency of different makes of pumps , field records showing the quantity of water lifted , the number of acres irrigated , the amount of fuel used ( with its cost ) ...
... past year have taken a wide range and included laboratory tests of the efficiency of different makes of pumps , field records showing the quantity of water lifted , the number of acres irrigated , the amount of fuel used ( with its cost ) ...
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... past season has in- cluded the collection of information about the amount of water used , losses by seepage and evaporation , the effect of standing water of dif- ferent temperatures on the berries and vines , and the influence of irri ...
... past season has in- cluded the collection of information about the amount of water used , losses by seepage and evaporation , the effect of standing water of dif- ferent temperatures on the berries and vines , and the influence of irri ...
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... past year there has been a marked extension of drain- age studies in the humid portions of the United States . These have included examinations and reports on the drainage problems of dis- tricts in Nebraska , Iowa , South Dakota ...
... past year there has been a marked extension of drain- age studies in the humid portions of the United States . These have included examinations and reports on the drainage problems of dis- tricts in Nebraska , Iowa , South Dakota ...
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... past year were as follows : Chemistry of fertilizers and farm crops ; botany - grasses , native trees , varieties of castor - oil beans and of cotton ; soils - renovation with manures and leguminous plants , inoculation experiments ...
... past year were as follows : Chemistry of fertilizers and farm crops ; botany - grasses , native trees , varieties of castor - oil beans and of cotton ; soils - renovation with manures and leguminous plants , inoculation experiments ...
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acre Agricul Agricultural College Agricultural Experiment Station Alaska alfalfa animal husbandry Annual Report appropriation Assistant Chemist August 15 bacteriology Botanist breeding Bulletin Bureau of Plant bushels cattle cent cereals Chem Chemist Chemistry cooperation Copper Center corn cowpeas cultivation culture dairy Dakota Department Director diseases of plants drainage engin Entomologist Farm products farmers feeding stuffs field experiments forage crops forage plants fruits GOVERNING BOARD grain grasses growth horticulture Horticulturist improvement inches high income insects institutions irrigation July July 15 June 15 land legumes mech ment methods milk North Dakota Office of Experiment orchard past fiscal plant breeding Plant Industry plats Porto Rico potatoes poultry pounds principal lines publications receipts and expenditures rendered in accordance schedules prescribed Secretary seed silage soil station received STATION STAFF substations sugar sugar beets tion tobacco trees unfertilized United States fund variety tests vegetables wheat yield
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Page 229 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to 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...
Page 233 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...
Page 229 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings; Third.
Page 389 - an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure...
Page 228 - States in sections, or subdivisions of sections not less than one quarter of a section ; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre...
Page 245 - That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations and experiments and printing and distributing the results as hereinbefore prescribed, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated to each State, to be specially provided for by Congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each Territory entitled under the provisions of section...
Page 229 - ... 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 of life.
Page 232 - SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend, suspend or repeal any or all of the provisions of this act.
Page 232 - 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 228 - Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they...