Bulletin - Agricultural Experiment Station, University of MinnesotaExperiment Station of the College of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, 1895 |
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Page 425 - ... and issue at their tips amid the mucous fluid already spoken of. Then follows a period of convulsions during which more mucous material is elaborated, until the whole end of the body is bathed in it, when another egg passes down and is placed in position. These alternate processes continue until the full complement of eggs are in place, the number ranging from twenty to thirty-five, but averaging about twenty-eight.
Page 270 - Dobson presented for its first reading: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE LAYING OF WATER MAINS UPON THE PETITION OF PROPERTY OWNERS TO BE BENEFITED, CREATING OF ASSESSMENT DISTRICTS AND THE LEVYING OF TAXES TO COLLECT THE COST THEREOF.
Page 40 - As soon as the skin is split, the soft and white fore-body and head swell and gradually extrude more and more by a series of muscular contortions ; the new head slowly emerges from the old skin, which, with its empty eyes, is worked back beneath, and the new feelers and legs are being drawn from their casings and the future wings from their sheaths.
Page 271 - No person shall within this State manufacture for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell, offer or expose for sale, or sell as lard, any substance not the legitimate and exclusive product of the fat of the hog.
Page 270 - City, without unnecessary delay; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Health to cause to be made by the veterinarian of the Department of Health, or under his direction and supervision, an examination of each and every animal producing milk for sale or consumption within said City...
Page 414 - Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks.
Page 427 - ... the same frothy matter that surrounds each egg, which matter occupies all the other space in the burrow not occupied by the eggs. The whole plan is seen at once by a reference to the accompanying figure, which represents, enlarged, a side view of the mass within the burrow (a), and a bottom (b) and top (c) view of the same, with the earth which adheres to it removed.
Page 271 - ... without first marking the can or package containing said milk with the words "skimmed milk" in large plain black letters, each letter being at least one inch high and one-half inch wide, said words to be on the side not below the middle of said can or package, where they can be easily seen.
Page 3 - Pratt informs the writer is very successfully used in London, England, consists of any deep vessel or jar, against which a number of sticks are placed, and bent over so that they project into the interior of the vessel for a few inches. The vessel is partially filled with stale beer or ale, a liquid for which roaches seem to have a special fondness. In the morning these vessels are found charged with great quantities of dead and dying roaches, which have climbed up the inclined sticks and slipped...
Page 195 - Original. then pauses an instant and immediately emits a rapid succession of sounds like chwi at the rate of about five per second, and continues them for an unlimited time. Another writer likens its note to the syllable "ik-ik-ik" as if sharpening a saw, enlivening low bushes and particularly the corn patch, as it seems to especially delight in perching near the top of a corn-stalk and there giving forth its rather impulsive song.