Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station

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University of Maine, 1914
 

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Page vii - ... to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same ; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth ; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping...
Page vii - ... comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective...
Page 88 - Administrator may be used. (b) No statement, word, picture, design, or device, which is false or misleading in any particular or conveys any false impression or gives any false indication of origin, identity, or quality, shall appear on any label. For example : (1) Official grade designations such as the letter grades A, B, and...
Page 1 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals, the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
Page 102 - ... in which it is manufactured or produced. 2. It is an imitation or is offered for sale under the name of another substance. 3. The original contents of the package have been removed in whole or in part and other contents added. 4. The...
Page 104 - ... substances, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, which are comparatively costly and steady in price. The trade-value per pound of these ingredients is reckoned from the current market prices of the standard articles which furnish them to commerce.
Page 10 - drug," as used in this Act, shall include all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease of either man or other animals. The term "food...
Page 34 - ... grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, ground beef or fish scraps, mixed feeds, and all other materials of similar nature ; but shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed; meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn ; neither shall it include wheat, rye, and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as distinct...
Page vii - ... with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States...
Page 35 - ... constituents to be determined by the methods adopted at the time by the association of official agricultural chemists. If the feeding stuff is sold in bulk or put up in packages belonging to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall, upon request of the purchaser, furnish him with the certified statement named in this section. Section 2.

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