Experiment Station Record, Volume 25U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Agricultural experiment stations |
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Page 397 - It will not be doubted that with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.
Page 398 - That they will establish there a course of instruction in practical agriculture, in useful and ornamental gardening, in botany, and in such other branches of natural science, as may tend to promote a knowledge of practical agriculture and the various arts subservient thereto...
Page 395 - ... organization, control, location, equipment, courses of study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions of admission, employment of pupils and expenditure of the money, constitute approved continuation schools or courses of instruction.
Page 503 - ... sufficient size to warrant cutting. The forests can not recover from the overdrafts continually being made upon them; hence it is only a question of a limited number of years until paper fiber must be grown as a crop, as are practically all other plant materials entering into the economy of man. While the conservation of only a few of the by-products of the farms yielding paper fiber can be accomplished profitably in the near future and only a few plants promise to be money-makers immediately...
Page 264 - The utilization of ingested fat under the influence of copious and moderate water drinking with meals, HA MATILL and PB HAWK (Abs.
Page 698 - Department of Agriculture at Washington, in response to a call issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture. Almost the first thing which this convention did was to pass a resolution "that the condition and progress of American agriculture require national aid for investigation and experimentation in the several States and Territories ; and that therefore this convention approves the principle and general provisions of what is known as the Cullen bill of the last Congress, and urges upon the next Congress...
Page 691 - Annual Convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, held at Washington, DC, November 1215, 1889.
Page 371 - ... 3. A system of immediate and perfect sewage removal, which renders it impossible that the air or water shall be contaminated from excreta. 4. A system of ventilation which carries off all respiratory impurities. 5. A condition of house construction which insures perfect dryness of the foundation, walls, and roof.
Page 2 - Submit to the approval of the governments, if there is occasion for it, measures for the protection of the common interests of farmers and for the improvement of their condition...
Page 11 - ... or talcum, and the mixture heated to boiling over a free flame until the carbonate has entirely dissolved. The diluted urine is now run in from the burette, rather rapidly until a chalk-white precipitate forms, and the blue color of...