Experiment Station Record, Volume 51

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925

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Page 600 - An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals," and to co-operate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of such act.
Page 104 - He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ethnological Society of America : and from 1843 to his death he was president of the New York Historical Society.
Page 393 - ... described not in general terms, but by detailing its specific activities ; third, its organization for the handling of these activities; fourth, the character of its plant; fifth, a compilation of, or reference to, the laws and regulations governing its operations; sixth, financial statements showing its appropriations, expenditures and other data for a period of years ; and finally, a full bibliography of the sources of information, official and private, bearing on the service and its operations.
Page 483 - The sales of native asphalt and related bitumens in the United States in 1921 increased 49 per cent in quantity and 64 per cent in value over those in 1920.
Page 483 - Tentative Standard Methods of Sampling and Testing Highway Materials. These methods have been adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture for use In connection with Federal-Aid Road Construction.
Page 166 - ... supply of nutriment was undoubtedly below the requirement. One of the twins in the one case, as well as the child of the other mother just referred to, had an abnormally low phosphorus content of the blood serum, the typical rachitic finding. Continued use of a deficient diet by the nursing mother may have serious effects on the child, especially in the later stages of lactation, when the mother's reserve has become depleted. Observations on the lower animals even suggest that, if the diet of...
Page 36 - Report on the Experiments on the Influence of Soil, Season, and Manuring on the Quality and Growth of Barley, 1923.
Page 25 - ... great variety of plants, including wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax, buckwheat, white sweet clover, peas, beans, lettuce, and a number of common weeds were grown from seed to maturity in continuous artificial light, and all set good seed. Potatoes, tomatoes, red clover, alsike clover, squash, and Silene bloomed, but did not set seed. Potatoes produced tubers of good size. All of the plants tested did not require a certain period of illumination to cause them to bloom. It is possible to produce...
Page 121 - The commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Development of the State of New Jersey is in the process of obtaining necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way. The State has contributed the non-Federal share of funds required for work in fiscal year 1964.
Page 121 - VI ABSTRACT OF REPORT. The greensand marl belt of New Jersey extends across the State from the vicinity of Sandy Hook at the northeast to Delaware River near Salem at the southwest, a distance of about 100 miles. It is crossed at many places by railroads and by streams that flow into Delaware River. The potash in the greensand marl occurs chiefly in the mineral glauconite, which is essentially a hydrous silicate of ferric iron and potassium.

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