Experiment Station Record, Volume 30

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Page 605 - An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of an act of congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of agriculture,
Page 603 - That co-operative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise...
Page 603 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 254 - The maximum length of time that Trypanosoma evansi has been demonstrated microscopically in the gut of this species of fly after feeding on infected blood is thirty hours; the organisms were found in the fly's dejecta two and one-half hours after biting the infected animal; and suspensions of flies...
Page 597 - ... be about as follows: for the execution of the projects, including work during vacations and other out-of-school hours, 50 per cent. ; and for the related study, 30 per cent. The remaining 20 per cent, of the time of the boy is...
Page 563 - Just as In the engine. The body neither manufactures nor destroys energy. All that It gives out It gets from Its food and all that Is supplied In Its food Is sooner or later recovered in some form.
Page 142 - The Influence of Various Light Intensities and Soil Moisture on the Growth of Cucumbers, and Their Susceptibility to Burning from Hydrocyanic Acid Gas.
Page 384 - Spirochaeta suis is an obligatory anaerobic organism and usually requires several weeks' incubation for growth to take place on artificial culture medium. It may be transferred from generation to generation on artificial culture medium. Cultures containing the organism in the form of granules and spirochetes may be passed through bacteriaproof filters and the spirochetes removed, the few small granules which pass through being capable of producing hog cholera or resistance to the disease.
Page 124 - ... history. (2) Within wide limits the rate of growth of a plant varies with the concentration of the nutritive solution, irrespective of the total amount of plant food available. (3) When other conditions, such as the supply of nitrogen, water, and air, are equal, the growth of the crop will be determined by the concentration of the soil solution in phosphoric acid and potash which, in its turn, is determined by the amount of these substances in the soil, their state of combination, and the fertiliser...
Page 162 - One-half to three-fourths of bouillon cubes is table salt. The cubes are not concentrated beef or meat essence, as many people believe. They are valuable stimulants or flavoring agents, but have little or no real food value. Bouillon cubes, therefore, are relatively expensive. "Semisolid meat extracts sold in jars are not concentrated beef. They are stimulants and flavoring adjuncts and have only a slight food value, owing to a small amount of protein (muscle-building food) which they contain. They...

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