Experiment Station Record, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 - Agricultural experiment stations |
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Page 117 - Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained wholly or in part by State funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar experiments is maintained mainly by funds contributed by sugar planters. In several States substations have been established.
Page 291 - Slug-shot injured the plants to which it was applied. Peroxide of silicates had a decided effect in preventing injury, and where the plants had been well started before being attacked saved them from destruction. But it did not save them where the beetles were so numerous that they burrowed down to meet the sprouting plants.
Page 118 - Fifty-three stations work to a greater or less extent in horticulture, testing varieties of vegetables and large and small fruits, and making studies in varietal improvement and synonymy.
Page 106 - Infected streams may communicate the disease to herds below the source of infection. (c) Virus may be carried in feed, implements, and on the feet and clothing of persons from infected herds and premises. (d) Winds, insects, birds (particularly buzzards), and various animals may transport hog cholera virus.
Page 17 - From such raw materials as are in our markets, without the aid of milling machinery, mixtures can be and are annually made on the farm which are uniform in quality, fine and dry and equal in all respects to the best ready-made fertilizers.
Page 81 - ... based on the local cost of feed alone, and does not consider interest on investment and labor involved, for the reason that approximate estimates on these points are in an exceptional degree dependent on quality of stock and varying local circumstances. The details are embodied in a few subsequent tables under the following headings : — 1. Statement of articles of fodder used. 2. Record of average quality of milk and of fodder rations.
Page 106 - Destruction of all diseased animals. (c) Careful burial or burning of carcasses. (d) Repeated thorough disinfection of the infected premises. (e) Great cleanliness, both as to surroundings and as regards the food, to prevent its becoming infected.
Page 227 - ... than when used during a drought. We not only saw greater injury when a rain followed spraying within two or three days, but secured the same results by spraying, soon after treatment, with pure water. This also accords with the view that the injury comes from the presence of soluble arsenic. Fourthly, It would seem that spraying soon after the foliage puts out is less harmful than when it is delayed a few days, or better, a few weeks.
Page 290 - That about three-fourths of the cherries liable to injury by the plum curculio can be saved by two or three applications of London purple in a water spray, in the proportion of one ounce to ten gallons of water.
Page 16 - It is self evident that an intelligent fanner by homemixing is better able than anyone else can be to adapt the composition of his fertilizers to the special requirements of his land as well as of his crop." (3) The indirect educational advantages. — This is probably the strongest recommendation of the practice. It encourages a spirit of inquiry among those using fertilizers, and leads them to study and apply the results of agricultural research, thus contributing much toward the fixing of the...