Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Volume 2The University, 1890 |
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½ inch deep 24 hours A. E. Moore A. N. PRENTISS Adams Express Co Agricultural Experiment Station AMOUNTS OF WATER Andrus & Church appear ascospores Average basidia beans Bulletin butter cent churned conidia corn CORNELL UNIVERSITY cows crop DAILY SPROUTINGS deep in sand Deputy Director disease early Entomology Epitome Epitome.-Sprouting Expressage fertilizers forcing-house fruit fungus G. C. CALDWELL germination grain HENRY H Horticulture I. P. ROBERTS Incubator infested insect Ithaca J. H. COMSTOCK JAMES WOOD June L. H. BAILEY Labor lambs larva leaf manure mycelium National Express nitrogen Norway spruce orchard Peaches perithecium plants plat Professor Profusely watered rapidity of sprouting ration SAMPLES Sept skimmed soaked soil sowing sparingly watered species spores stalks straw strawberry Thorburn tomato Total trees tube ture U. S. Express varieties Veterinary Science W. M. MUNSON W. R. DUDLEY weight windbreak winds
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Page 11 - June 30, 1902; that we have found the same well kept and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the...
Page 11 - 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.
Page 64 - Plants of high latitudes are more sensitive to heat and cold than those of the same species growing nearer the equator, ie, they start or vegetate relatively earlier in Spring. This subject has been investigated in several directions, but, so far as the writer is aware, it has not been pursued in this country in relation to germination of seeds.
Page 19 - SIR : In accordance with your request, I beg leave to submit the following report of the present condition of the Mississippi river from St.
Page 2 - OF THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. BOARD OF CONTROL THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY. THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND STATION COUNCIL JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, President of the University. FRANKLIN C. CORNELL, Trustee of the University LIBERTY H. BAILEY, Director of the College and Experiment Station. EMMONS L. WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the University.
Page 110 - The injuries sustained from wind-breaks are as follows: Preventing the free circulation of warm winds, and consequent exposure to cold; injuries from insects and fungous diseases ; injuries from the encroachment of the wind-break itself; increased liability to late spring frosts in rare cases.
Page 90 - President State Agricultural Society. IP ROBERTS Professor of Agriculture. G. C. CALDWELL Professor of Chemistry. JAMES LAW Professor of Veterinary Science. AN PRENTISS Professor of Botany.
Page 202 - ... their nest, little bands of silk, extending from their nest to the various parts of the tree where the insects have fed. fighting this insect is by the destruction of it in the webs. This can be easily done by means of a torch attached to the end of a long pole. Care should be taken to do this when the insects are in the web, and not while they are scattered over the tree feeding. Ordinarily the best time will be early in the morning, or late in the afternoon, or during a stormy day. This work...
Page 192 - Plants. o 1 o 24 the seed-like fruits) were chosen for the experiment. These were sown in boxes in the green house, April 13, 1889, and as noted above were all ten years old. Out of the thirty-two kinds sown, only ten germinated up to the end of the experiment, May 30, as shown in the following table : It should be noted that the conditions for germination in the green house were probably not so favorable as in an out-door seed bed, as the atmosphere was constantly near the point of saturation and...
Page 150 - That art on which a thousand millions of men are dependent for their sustenance, and two hundred millions of men expend their daily toil, must be the most important of all; the parent and precursor of all other arts.