Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 46W. White, 1898 - Agriculture |
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... TOBACCO . BY DR . E. H. JENKINS , NEW HAVEN , CONN . It would be hard to say just what the stations - entirely apart from experienced tobacco growers - had learned about raising and curing the weed . It would be quite as hard to say ...
... TOBACCO . BY DR . E. H. JENKINS , NEW HAVEN , CONN . It would be hard to say just what the stations - entirely apart from experienced tobacco growers - had learned about raising and curing the weed . It would be quite as hard to say ...
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... tobacco , but on neither can he raise the lightest- colored , fine - textured wrapper leaf . Again , connected with this matter of soil texture is the water content of tobacco soils . It is quite possible that the water supply is the ...
... tobacco , but on neither can he raise the lightest- colored , fine - textured wrapper leaf . Again , connected with this matter of soil texture is the water content of tobacco soils . It is quite possible that the water supply is the ...
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... tobacco ? I hardly need to say that chlorides or muriates are every- where regarded as hurtful . Muriates often increase the yield , but at the expense of quality . A certain very small amount of chlorine , not more than 5 pounds to the ...
... tobacco ? I hardly need to say that chlorides or muriates are every- where regarded as hurtful . Muriates often increase the yield , but at the expense of quality . A certain very small amount of chlorine , not more than 5 pounds to 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