Bulletin - Mississippi State College, Agricultural Experiment Station, Issues 170-207Agricultural Experiment Station., 1915 |
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Acala acid phosphate acre Agricultural alfalfa applications average boll weevil Bulletin calf calves cane cattle cent Check Cleveland Big Boll clover cob meal College Corn and cob corn silage cost cotton per acre cotton seed meal cottonseed hulls cottonseed meal cowpeas cows crop cultivation dairy Delta Station disease early feed feet fertilizer Goliad Goliad corn grain growers growing grown hogs Holly Springs inches infected Johnson grass hay June Kainit legumes lime lint loam manure McNeill Mississippi Experiment Station Mosby mule nitrate of soda nitrogen oats pasture peas planted plats plots plowed Poplarville pounds of gain pounds of seed pounds per acre produced profit Prolific rainfall rows season seed cotton shows Single stalk soil sorghum South Mississippi soy beans staple sulfate of ammonia sweet potato syrup TABLE thinned tons Total Trice Vardaman VARIETY TEST velvet beans vetch Wannamaker-Cleveland weather wilt winter yields
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Page 13 - This grade shall consist of sound potatoes of similar varietal characteristics which are practically free from dirt or other foreign matter, frost injury, sunburn, second growth, growth cracks, cuts, scab, blight, soft rot, dry rot, and damage caused by disease, insects, or mechanical or other means.
Page 13 - In order to allow for variations incident to proper grading and handling, not more than five per cent, by weight, of any lot may be below the prescribed size, and, in addition, not more than six per cent, by weight, .may be below the remaining requirements of this grade, but not to exceed one-third of this six per cent tolerance shall be allowed for potatoes affected by soft rot. Any potatoes other than those mentioned in this act shall be sold as "culls" and marked or labeled as provided in this...
Page 4 - All of the fowls were weighed at the beginning of the experiment and at the end of important periods in the experiment.
Page 31 - VIII shows the amount of feed required to produce 100 pounds of gain in weight on the calves and also the (comparative) cost of 100 pounds of gain.
Page 13 - No. 20, issued in 1917 by the Bureau of Markets of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 23 - States where the disease occurs the losses at the present time are comparatively small. At the most conservative estimate, stem-rot is responsible for a loss of at least three-quarters of a million dollars annually to the sweet-potato crop in the United States.
Page 31 - QUANTITY AND COST OF FEED REQUIRED TO MAKE 100 POUNDS OF GAIN, AND SELLING PRICE OF CALVES NOVEMBER 12, 1915, to APRIL 16, 1916—156 DAYS Average!
Page 2 - If manure cannot be obtained, use 100 pounds of nitrate of soda and 200 pounds of acid phosphate per acre.
Page 3 - McNelll) has been 405 pounds per acre of seed cotton, while three years' results on this parked land show an average yield of 1,253 pounds per acre ; the yield of cotton grown for four years continuously on the same land and fertilized with a mixture of two parts acid phosphate and one part cotton-seed meal at the rate of 300 pounds per acre has averaged 933.5 pounds of seed cotton per acre, while the average of three results with the same fertilizer on the parked land has been 1,840 pounds per acre;...
Page 34 - The fanner who has no corn to feed, but has good roughage such as silage and hay, can feel sure that he can make good...