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Page 55 - 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.
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Page 56 - This litter and manure may be disinfected by mixing it with lime, diluted sulphuric acid, or if not disinfected, it may be stored where no cattle can come in contact with it until after December 1. (6.) Wash the cars and the feeding and watering troughs with water until clean.
Page 493 - SIR : I have the honor to present herewith the report of the Office of Experiment Stations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911.
Page 175 - ... (d) On moistening with water these powders, even when containing an excess of alkaline material, yield small quantities of aluminum and calcium in a soluble condition. "(e) As a consequence of the common employment of calcium acid phosphate along with alum in the manufacture of...
Page 403 - I have the honor to submit herewith my report on the •work of the Section during the past year.
Page 56 - The losses which formerly occurred to the owners of susceptible cattle, both in the interstate and export trade, by the contraction of this. disease from exposure in unclean and infected cars and pens, and by means of the manure carried in unclean cars from place to place...
Page 536 - Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained wholly or in part by State funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar experiments is maintained mainly by funds contributed by sugar planters. In several States substations have been established.
Page 250 - ... at 22 cents per pound and the wax at 33 cents, making the aggregate value of apiarian products, at the place of production...
Page 552 - Office, and was brought out very clearly at the recent meeting of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations at Washington.