Annual Report of the Director of the Agricultural Station ... |
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... winter of 1887-8 which were well attended by representative farmers from different parts of the State , and in accordance with the popular opin- ion that to connect an experimental station with Brown University was inadvisable , the ...
... winter of 1887-8 which were well attended by representative farmers from different parts of the State , and in accordance with the popular opin- ion that to connect an experimental station with Brown University was inadvisable , the ...
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... winter months when manual work on the farm is difficult to provide . Finally , the Board would respectfully urge that in their opinion the agricultural and mechanical interests of the State will best be promoted by appropriating the ...
... winter months when manual work on the farm is difficult to provide . Finally , the Board would respectfully urge that in their opinion the agricultural and mechanical interests of the State will best be promoted by appropriating the ...
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... the United States . " The committee held several public hear- ings during the winter of 1887-8 , which were well attended by farmers from different parts of the State . The fact 14 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION .
... the United States . " The committee held several public hear- ings during the winter of 1887-8 , which were well attended by farmers from different parts of the State . The fact 14 STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION .
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... winter of '88 -89 . Last spring a small building 10 x 20 feet and about 74 feet high was erected as a tem- porary and convenient workroom and store - house for the apiary . It stands near the apiary at a point just east of Race Hollow ...
... winter of '88 -89 . Last spring a small building 10 x 20 feet and about 74 feet high was erected as a tem- porary and convenient workroom and store - house for the apiary . It stands near the apiary at a point just east of Race Hollow ...
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... winter one more cow than it ever did before . One object of this and other experiment sta- tions is to inform the farmers what has been done , to answer as far as they can be answered , all questions in relation to the analysis of crops ...
... winter one more cow than it ever did before . One object of this and other experiment sta- tions is to inform the farmers what has been done , to answer as far as they can be answered , all questions in relation to the analysis of crops ...
Common terms and phrases
Abbott Run acre Agricultural Experiment Station air-slacked lime analyses Annual Report apiary applied bees Board of Managers Bordeaux Mixture breeding Bulletin bushels cent chemical clover cob 1 bush comb honey crop digestible disease Dissolved Bone Dissolved Boneblack Division Early eyes shallow farm farmers feeding feet fertilizing materials field fodder form of nitrate full Ration grain grass green Ground Bone growth Hard Corn hives honey inches Indian Game KIND OF FERTILIZER Kingston land lime Maize MELVILLE BULL Mixed Minerals Moderately productive Muriate of Potash Nitrate of Soda nitrification nitrogen oats peas phosphoric acid plants plot 23 plowed poultry pounds Quality medium Rhode Island rows SAMUEL CUSHMAN season seed Seedling shelled corn skin light red skin white Soft Corn soil sown stable manure straw Sulph sulphate of ammonia Superphosphate TABLE SHOWING temperature tion Total yield Tubers varieties vines worms YIELDS PER PLOT
Popular passages
Page 17 - States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page 8 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 14 - That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 258 - That bulletins or reports of progress shall be published at said stations at least once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit.
Page 8 - ... that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act), and the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act...
Page 8 - ... moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 13 - 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 13 - States commissioner of 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 9 - Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail [free], by each, to all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of this act [7 USCS §§ 301 et seq.], and also one copy to the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 5 - ... charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums, and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement. This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown, that they are very cheap instruments...