Annual Report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Volumen9,Parte1895Free Press printing Company, 1896 |
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Alternaria amount analyses army worm Atlas gluten meal beetles beets Bordeaux mixture Bordeaux powder Burlington butter fat carrots cent of fat clover Cock's-foot commercial fertilizers Corn and Bran corn ensilage corn meal corn oil cake cost cotton seed bran cotton seed meal crop digestible dilute disease disinfected Dry Matter Eaten early blight Experiment Station fall cow feeding value figure fodder fungicide fungus grown herd injurious insect lactation larva larvæ late blight leaf less Linseed Meal locusts meal and bran monthly per cent months after calving nitrogen oats obtained Paris green period phosphoric acid potash Potato Blight potato leaves pound of dry produced protein quantity Ratio of monthly ration Rocky Mountain locust samples scabby selling prices shows smut soil solids not fat species spores sprayed spring cows sulphate total dry matter total solids tubers valuation variation Vermont wheat bran wireworms
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Página 7 - June 30, 1898 ; that we have found the same well kept, and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the treasurer of the United States are shown to have been $15,000, and the corresponding disbursements $15,000, for all of which proper vouchers are on file, and have been by us examined and found correct, thus leaving no balance.
Página 18 - A soil can be termed fertile only when it contains all the materials requisite for the nutrition of plants, in the required quantity, and in the proper form." 2. "With every crop a portion of these ingredients is removed. A part of this portion is again added from the inexhaustible store of the atmosphere ; another part, however, is lost forever if not replaced by man.
Página 3 - Connecticut 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.
Página 3 - That for the purpose of protection from frauds in commercial fertilizers, and from adulterations in foods, feeds and seeds, and for the purpose of promoting agriculture by scientific investigation and experiment, the Maine Fertilizer Control and Agricultural Experiment Station is hereby established in connection with the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
Página 130 - The garments of laborers, hung up in the field while they are at work, these insects destroy in a few hours ; and with the same voracity they devour the loose particles which the saw leaves upon the surface of pine boards, and which, when separated, are termed saw-dust. The appearance of a board fence, from which the particles had been eaten in this manner, and which I saw, was novel and singular ; and seemed the result, not of the operations of the plane, but of attrition.
Página 134 - Report of the United States Entomological Commission on the Rocky Mountain locust...
Página 3 - Act," approved March 2, 1887. The State appropriation expired in 1890. The Station is prepared to analyze and test fertilizers, cattle foods, seeds, milk and other agricultural materials and products, to identify grasses, weeds, and useful or injurious insects, and to give information on various subjects of agricultural science for the use and advantage of the citizens of Vermont. All chemical analyses...
Página 127 - The mucous matter binds all the eggs in a mass, and when the last is laid, the mother devotes some time to filling up the somewhat narrower neck of the burrow with a compact and...
Página 79 - It seems possible (hat the early blight of potatoes may be due to the physiological effects of extreme heat and dryness acting upon leaf tissues at a distance from the roots, and already injured by predatory insects, especially those abundant under such atmospheric conditions; that anything which will check the ravages of the insects will, in a measure, check the blight; and that tissues so injured are liable to the attacks of certain fungi which may enhance the injury.
Página 22 - Carolina rock, known to the trade as 'floats', and wood ashes (potash). Leather, wool waste and ground phosphate rock should be used only when one is prepared to wait for years for returns. " The use of certain forms of fertilizing ingredients is desirable with some crops. Potatoes, tobacco and sugar beets do better on sulphate of potash than with the muriate, while with peach trees the reverse is true. Relatively insoluble forms of phosphoric acid are desirable in seeding down. Nitrate of soda is...