Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Volume 25W. White, 1878 - Agriculture Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College. |
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... species , and there is where I got my information . You let two persons have issue they may have ten children , and , if one of those parents has predominating qualities , those predominating qualities will appear 96 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
... species , and there is where I got my information . You let two persons have issue they may have ten children , and , if one of those parents has predominating qualities , those predominating qualities will appear 96 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE .
Page 114
... species , we should not gener- ally be willing to let them breed until they were at least four or five years old : whereas we are very apt to use bulls be- fore they are one year old , even at nine months . Horses are not used quite so ...
... species , we should not gener- ally be willing to let them breed until they were at least four or five years old : whereas we are very apt to use bulls be- fore they are one year old , even at nine months . Horses are not used quite so ...
Page 119
... species , until the fact was discovered that one grass was simply a staminate , or male plant ; and the other a pistillate , or female plant , both belonging to the same species . Of course the seed is produced only on the pistillate ...
... species , until the fact was discovered that one grass was simply a staminate , or male plant ; and the other a pistillate , or female plant , both belonging to the same species . Of course the seed is produced only on the pistillate ...
Page 120
... species of the panic - grasses , and a few of the wood - grasses , called andropogon by the botanists . But by far the greater number , almost the whole , of our natural and cultivated grasses and grains , have perfect flow- ers ; that ...
... species of the panic - grasses , and a few of the wood - grasses , called andropogon by the botanists . But by far the greater number , almost the whole , of our natural and cultivated grasses and grains , have perfect flow- ers ; that ...
Page 130
... species will give a better result . The meadow - fescue is a common grass with us ; and the seed can now be got in our markets at a very reasonable price , as can all of the other grasses to which I have referred . At the time when my ...
... species will give a better result . The meadow - fescue is a common grass with us ; and the seed can now be got in our markets at a very reasonable price , as can all of the other grasses to which I have referred . At the time when my ...
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