Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 46W. White, 1898 - Agriculture |
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Page 193
... season is dry , the seed should be covered more deeply than usual , and the first rains will be almost sure to cause it to germinate . By seeding not later than the middle of Au- gust , the crop , having full use of the soil , becomes ...
... season is dry , the seed should be covered more deeply than usual , and the first rains will be almost sure to cause it to germinate . By seeding not later than the middle of Au- gust , the crop , having full use of the soil , becomes ...
Page 439
... season the egg - clusters were rare , as compared with those found in the same localities in the winter of 1897-98 . OIL BURNING . There were some infested localities overgrown with under- brush ( which could not be sprayed or otherwise ...
... season the egg - clusters were rare , as compared with those found in the same localities in the winter of 1897-98 . OIL BURNING . There were some infested localities overgrown with under- brush ( which could not be sprayed or otherwise ...
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... season the corn upon all the plots which had received muriate of potash was distinctly behind that upon other plots . 2. As the season advanced , the corn upon these plots gradually lost its sickly appearance , gained upon that in the ...
... season the corn upon all the plots which had received muriate of potash was distinctly behind that upon other plots . 2. As the season advanced , the corn upon these plots gradually lost its sickly appearance , gained upon that in the ...
Contents
Public Winter Meeting of the Board at Amherst | 13 |
The Mission of the Agricultural Colleges | 50 |
The Business Side of Agriculture By J H Hale | 84 |
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Agricultural College AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY Amherst ammonia amount animals apple appropriation average awarded better Board of Agriculture Boston brown-tail burlaps bushels caterpillars cent clover committee condition corn meal cows cream crop dairy products destroy disease dissolved bone-black early eggs England expenses Experiment Station extermination farmers feed fertilizers field fruit glanders grain grass green-manuring growers growing grown growth gypsy moth herds increase infested insects larvæ leaf Legislature manure Massachusetts Massachusetts Agricultural College milk millet muriate of potash nitrate of soda nitrogen oats orchard owner Phosphate phosphoric acid plant food Plat plots potassium oxide Potato pounds per acre premiums and gratuities protein quarantine quart San José San José scale season secretary Sect seed skim-milk soil spraying sulphate of potash tion tobacco Total towns trees tuberculin tuberculosis varieties West West Brookfield winter wood Worcester yield