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Page 81
... milk . The gravimetric method of determining fats was also illustrated . The Kjeldahl method for determining nitrogen was demonstrated and analyses were made from time to time . Among the special pieces of apparatus were an improved ...
... milk . The gravimetric method of determining fats was also illustrated . The Kjeldahl method for determining nitrogen was demonstrated and analyses were made from time to time . Among the special pieces of apparatus were an improved ...
Page 82
... milk , butter , and cheese are affected by the presence or absence of different kinds of bacteria . The laboratory was equipped with the ordinary apparatus for investigations on nonpathogenic germs , including a dust- proof culture room ...
... milk , butter , and cheese are affected by the presence or absence of different kinds of bacteria . The laboratory was equipped with the ordinary apparatus for investigations on nonpathogenic germs , including a dust- proof culture room ...
Page 131
... milk . There is , consequently , every reason why this Bureau , which is charged with the duty of coöperat- ing with the State authorities to prevent the spread of communicable diseases of animals from one State to another , should do ...
... milk . There is , consequently , every reason why this Bureau , which is charged with the duty of coöperat- ing with the State authorities to prevent the spread of communicable diseases of animals from one State to another , should do ...
Page 141
... milk containing the bacilli of tuberculosis and by the sale of meat from cattle in an advanced stage of the disease . The control of this disease should not be left to the interested dairyman and cattle dealer , but should become a ...
... milk containing the bacilli of tuberculosis and by the sale of meat from cattle in an advanced stage of the disease . The control of this disease should not be left to the interested dairyman and cattle dealer , but should become a ...
Page 142
... milk contains tubercle bacilli . These become disseminated by spilt milk in the stables ; but worse than this , they are taken into the body of infants and children . Such milk is furthermore dangerous in that it is liable to infect ...
... milk contains tubercle bacilli . These become disseminated by spilt milk in the stables ; but worse than this , they are taken into the body of infants and children . Such milk is furthermore dangerous in that it is liable to infect ...
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Page 452 - 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, 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...
Page 453 - 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 best promote the purposes of this Act.
Page 453 - That in order to secure as far as practicable uniformity of methods and results in the work of said stations it shall be the...
Page 35 - Congress appropriated $10,000 "to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the nutritive value of the various articles and commodities used for human food, with special suggestions of full, wholesome, and edible rations less wasteful and more economical than those in common use.
Page 453 - It shall be the duty of each of said stations annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to the Governor of the State or Territory in which it is located a full and detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Page 452 - 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 453 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations, that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station...
Page 55 - Museum, such articles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government in time of peace and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people...
Page 55 - Departments and the directors of the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum may respectively decide shall be embraced in said Government exhibit. The President may also designate additional articles for exhibition. Such board shall be composed of one person to be named by the head of each Executive Department, and one by the...
Page 452 - 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...