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acre ammonia analyses Average bacteria beef bushels butter calories Carbo carbohydrates cent clover composition Corn and Stover Cow pea crop curdling dietaries Dissolved Bone-black Dried Blood ensilage Experiment Station feeding ferment fertilizing materials Fiber field experiments fodder food materials fuel value full ration grain grams grass grown growth Harvest inches increase ingredients Kind labor laboratory large number legumes loam manure meal meat milk Minimum Mixed Minerals Muriate of Potash Nit'gen Nitrate of Soda nitric oxide Nitrogen ration Nitrogen-free Extract nutrients oats obtained percentages of protein phosphoric acid plant food potatoes potential energy produce protein quantities rennet Report roots to depth samples seed Shelled Corn SOIL TEST SPECIAL NITROGEN EXPERIMENT species specimens stubble and roots sulphate of ammonia supplied TABLE temperature TEST WITH FERTILIZERS Timothy Total food unmanured vetch Water-free Substance Weight YIELD PER ACRE ΙΟ
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Page 7 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 8 - No. 8 of the Office of Experiment Stations of the US Department of Agriculture.
Page 27 - The fuel value of a pound of each of the feeding stuffs as given in the tables was obtained by multiplying the number of hundredths of a pound of protein and of carbohydrates by 18.6, and the number of...
Page 98 - ... muscular and other power for the work it has to do. In forming the tissues and fluids of the body the food serves for building and repair. In yielding energy it serves as fuel for yielding heat and power.
Page 170 - ... heat to keep the body warm and muscular and other power for the work it has to do. In forming the tissues and fluids of the body, the food serves for building and repair. In yielding energy, it serves as fuel. The different nutrients of food act in different ways in fulfilling these purposes.
Page 168 - Yet most people understand very little about what their food contains, how it nourishes them, whether they are economical or wasteful in buying and preparing it for use, and whether or not the food they eat is rightly fitted to the demands of their bodies. The result of this ignorance is great waste in the purchase and use of food, loss of money, and injury to health.
Page 146 - Is consumed as fuel, its potential energy being transformed into heat or muscular energy, or other forms of energy required by the body; or.
Page 172 - In 1 pound of carbohydrates 1,860 In other words, when we compare the nutrients in respect to their fuel values, their capacities for yielding heat and mechanical power...
Page 102 - The Fertilizers. — The ingredients and amounts are such as are used in ordinary practice : Phosphoric acid and Potash being supplied in about the proportions that occur in a corn crop of fifty or sixty bushels ; and Nitrogen in one-third, two-thirds, and full ; 1 1 i"u 1 1 r in same crop.