Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment StationUniversity of Maine, 1913 |
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Page vi - 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...
Page vi - ... 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 States or Territories.
Page vi - ... the analysis of soils and water ; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, 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...
Page 113 - ... 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 115 - No. 8 of the Office of Experiment Stations of the US Department of Agriculture. A...
Page viii - 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 151 - The stopcock of the measuring tube of the nitrometer having been opened and the open equilibrium tube having been raised to a higher level, pour into the latter a saturated solution of sodium chloride, until the measuring tube, including the bore of the stopcock, is completely filled. Then close the latter and adjust the equilibrium tube at a low level. Having ascertained that the...
Page 301 - ... is reduced to the same state as the bird whose nest we daily rob of an egg, in which case the stimulus for incubation is suspended. Of this we have a familiar example in the common domestic fowl. That the cuckoo actually lays a great number of eggs, dissection seems to prove very decisively. Upon a comparison I had an opportunity of making between the ovarium, or racemus vitellorum, of a female cuckoo, killed just as she had begun to lay. and of a pullet killed in the same state, no essential...
Page 113 - ... stating the percentage of crude protein, allowing one per cent of nitrogen to equal six and one-fourth per cent of protein, and of crude fat it contains, both 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....
Page 252 - Walsh is also quite common within the curled leaves, feeding both on the lice and on the substance of the leaf. A large green Syrphus larva and several Chrysopa larvae also prey upon them.