Annual Report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N.Y., Volume 17, Part 1904James B. Lyon, State printer, 1905 |
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1-28 inclusive 16 per doz 1st period 28 per doz 31 per doz 3d period 4th period acre Agronomy alfalfa Animal Husbandry apple Average number blight Bordeaux mixture buckwheat Bulletin caterpillars cent Chautauqua county clover cocoons College of Agriculture conidia conidiophores copper sulfate corn meal CORNELL UNIVERSITY Cost of food cows crop disease early eggs eggs at 17 eggs at 28 eggs at 31 EGGS PRODUCED Entomology Experiment Station farm farmers feed field foliage food consumed fruit fungus gallons ginseng grape leaf-hopper ground oats growers growth hens hibernating Horticulture infested injury insect JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN JOHN HENRY COMSTOCK kerosene killed leaf leaves lime meat scraps nymphs oats cost onions oospores orchard Paris green pest pigs plants pullets Reading-Course roots season seed skimmed milk SLINGERLAND soil spores Total for entire Total for Flock trees vines vineyards week wheat middlings White Leghorn winter winter-course York
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Page 5 - 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.
Page 80 - Trustee of the University. LIBERTY H. BAILEY, Director of the College and Experiment Station. EMMONS L. WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the University. JOHN H. COMSTOCK, Professor of Entomology. HENRY H. WING, Professor of Animal Husbandry.
Page 327 - Three Unusual Strawberry Pests and a Greenhouse Pest. 191 Tillage Experiments with Potatoes. 192 Further Experiments against the PeachTree Borer. 193 Shade Trees and Timber Destroying Fungi. 194 The Hessian Fly. Its ravages in New York in 1901. 195 Further Observations upon the Ropiness in Milk and Cream. 196 Fourth Report on Potato Culture. 197 Germicidal Action in Cow's Milk.
Page 198 - Director of the Agricultural College and Experiment Station. EMMONS L. WILLIAMS, Treasurer of the University. JOHN H. COMSTOCK, Professor of Entomology. THOMAS F. HUNT, Professor of Agronomy. EXPERIMENTING STAFF LIBERTY H. BAILEY, Director. JOHN HENRY COMSTOCK, Entomology. HENRY H. WING, Animal Husbandry. GEORGE F. ATKINSON, Botany. JOHN CRAIG, Horticulture. THOMAS F. HUNT, Agronomy. RAYMOND A. PEARSON, Dairy Industry.
Page 216 - ... cooperative,— the farmer to provide land and labor and to have the crop, the expert to give advice and supervision and, so far as possible, to inspect the work. In some cases, the college furnishes seeds and other materials. It does not furnish fertilizers. The benefit of the experiment or demonstration is expected to accrue mostly to the person on whose place the work is done.
Page 310 - 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.
Page 7 - I have the honor to transmit herewith the thirteenth annual report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Cornell University, in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 2, 1887, establishing the Station. This document contains the report of the Director and the special reports of his scientific coadjutors, as well as copies of the bulletins, Nos.
Page 225 - Bordeaux mixture; 3. repeat 2 at intervals of 2 to 3 weeks until fruit is three-fourths grown; 4. ammoniacal copper carbonate when fruit is nearly grown; 5, 6, etc., repeat 4 at intervals of 7 to 14 days as required. Downy mildew, Powdery mildew , the first application recommended under Black-rot is of especial importance. See Bulletin 76. Ripe-rot, apply very thoroughly the later applications recommanded under Black-rot.
Page 215 - To illustrate or teach, — to instruct the cooperator in methods, to set him at the working out of his own problems, to bring him into touch with the latest discoveries and points of view. (2) To demonstrate in various parts of the State the value or the inefficiency of various new theories and discoveries, — to determine how far these newer ideas are applicable to local conditions. (3) To discover new truth, which may be worthy of record in bulletins : this is usually the least of the results...
Page 12 - ... and work-room will be largely done away with and Director Bailey and his able coadjutors will be able to do their important work unhampered by the disagreeable annoyances to which they have been subjected in the past. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, JG SCHURMAN, President of Cornell University. REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR.