Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Volume 5Free Press printing Company, 1892 - Agriculture "Condensed outlines of articles published in Reports 1-19, Bulletins 1-133, 1887-1907, [by Joseph L. Hills], "in no. 20 p. 387-505. |
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Page 9 - June 30, 1002 ; that we have found the same well kept and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the treasurer of the United .States are shown to have been...
Page 5 - Jersey citizen who is concerned in agriculture, whether farmer, manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province to render, and the Station will respond to all applications as far as lies in its power.
Page 55 - The nutritive constituents, total acidity, and mineral elements of the fruit were determined by the methods of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (1) or by slight modifications of these procedures.
Page 5 - The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station was established for the purpose of promoting agriculture by scientific investigation and experiment ... to give information on various subjects of agricultural science for the use and advantage of the citizens of New Jersey. It is the wish of the Board of Directors to make the Station as widely useful as its resources will admit.
Page 5 - ... insects, and other work of a similar character that properly comes within its province. It is the desire of the Board of Control to make the Station as widely useful as its limited appropriation will permit. To this end we earnestly invite the co-operation of the people and press of the State.
Page 44 - Extractor as an extractor cannot be judged in thia way since the buttermilk is also run through the machine, and the final quantity of skimmilk is considerably larger than the combined skimmilk and buttermilk of the other machines. Churns.— Both the box and the barrel churn were used, and so far as we could see there was no difference in the character of their work. The average fat in the buttermilk from the box churn was 0.14 per cent, and from the barrel churn 0.18. Butter Workers.— All three...
Page 17 - ... materials resembling glucose, due to the starting of the buds and the beginning of the summer's growth of the tree. 5. These extra materials at the beginning of the season are about one-sixteenth the weight of the sugar, and increase until in some very poor and black "last run "they may amount to thirty pounds for every hundred pounds of actual sugar present.
Page 69 - ... general tendency of the quality of the milk to become richer in fat content when the temperature is falling and less rich during a rising temperature. Concerning the changes in the milk occurring simultaneously with storms, if these changes are considered to be due to the. effect of rain storms they seem to indicate that cows in flush of milk on pasture feed give as much or more milk and of just as good quality in bad weather as in fair weather, and that when the storm is over they give a less...
Page 66 - He explains this by saying that as the temperature falls, the cow actually consumes more food, and thus there is present in the system a larger amount of material from which to produce the milk nutrients.
Page 25 - The ordinary rule of the maker is to make syrup that shall weigh 11 pounds to the gallon, and we have found by experiment that this custom is exactly right and that the temperature corresponding to this weight is 219°. That is, if the syrup is taken off from the fire as soon as it shows a temperature of 219° it will weigh exactly 11 pounds to the gallon and will not grain on standing. This is, however, the extreme limit, if the temperature is allowed to get a single degree higher the syrup will...