Yearbook of the United States Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - Agriculture |
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000 omitted Acreage Agriculture animals Argentina Association Austria-Hungary Aver Average Beef Belgium Breeders breeding Bureau Bushels Canada cattle cellar cement census cent College concrete cooperative corn cotton countries county agent crop dairy disease Dollars Dutch East Indies ending June 30 estimated exports Farm price Farm value farmers Federal feed feet figures Forest France fruits Germany grade grain growers herds High hogs horses Idaho important inches increase inspection Iowa January-June July July-December June 30 Kansas live stock Long tons machine meat methods Mexico Michigan Missouri muskrats Netherlands North Carolina North Dakota Ohio operations plants plowing Pork potatoes pounds prelim price per bushel production purebred Quantity reports roads rural Russia seed sheep shipments Short tons skins South stone sugar supply swine TABLE Texas tion tobacco tons Total trap trees United Kingdom Virginia wheat Wisconsin yield per acre
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Page 740 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.
Page 95 - ... meets dealers, shippers, and producers and is in daily touch with local trade conditions. WHAT IS A MARKET STATION? But, dropping comparisons, what is a market station ? It is a branch of the Bureau of Markets of the United States Department of Agriculture established in a large city primarily for the purpose of collecting and distributing market news.
Page 291 - What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely ; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.
Page 207 - That in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same...
Page 497 - ... degrees, and many provide for graduate study. About 60 of these institutions also provide special, short, or correspondence courses in the different branches of agriculture, including agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, poultry raising, cheese making, dairying, sugar making, rural engineering, farm mechanics, and other technical subjects. The agricultural experiment stations, with very few exceptions, are departments of the agricultural colleges.
Page 17 - Of course, this greatly increased financial showing does not mean that the Nation is better off to that extent or that its real wealth has advanced in that proportion. Considering merely the domestic relations, the true state is indicated rather in terms of real commodities, comparative statements of which are given in foregoing paragraphs.
Page 740 - Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma Arkansas. • Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California.
Page 480 - ... scraped on the flesh side with the edge of a worn flat file or a similar bluntedged tool. In this way an inner layer is removed, and the skins become nearly white in color. They are then stretched, rubbed, and twisted until quite dry. Fresh butter or other animal fat worked into skins while they are warm and then worked out again next day in dry hardwood sawdust or extracted by a hasty bath in gasoline increases their softness.
Page 3 - Weather Bureau CHARLES F. MARVIN. Chief. Bureau of Animal Industry JOHN R. MOHLER, Chief. Bureau of Dairy Industry OE REED, Chief.
Page 2 - Secretary, be specially suited to interest and instruct the farmers of the country, and to include a general report of the operations of the Department for their information. There shall be printed of Part One, one thousand copies for the Senate, two thousand copies for the House, and three thousand copies for the Department of Agriculture; and of Part Two, one hundred and ten thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three hundred and sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives,...