Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABSTRACT acre acre-foot Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture and Animal alfalfa amount Animal Husbandry apparatus apple April April 26 Bacteriology Board of Control breeding bulletin Carson Sink Chemical codling moth coöperation cows crop dairy Department of Agriculture Department of Entomology Digested Director disease Doten Dry Matter Elko County ending June 30 Entomology expenses farmers feces feeding feet Fiber Extract Ash fiscal year ending following report forage plants frost Fund Adams Fund Furrow grain growing grown growth Hatch Fund Adams herbarium herd hogs Holstein honor to submit inches infested inoculated insect investigation irrigation July June 30 laboratory land larvæ ment Moisture Mount Rose native Nevada Agricultural Experiment orchard pounds produced Professor Protein ranch records Reno Respectfully submitted season seed sheep shrubs snow soil species specimens spraying spring Station Farm Station Staff temperature tion Total trees Truckee Truckee River UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA Valley varieties wheat winter yield
Popular passages
Page 14 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 1 - ... the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches...
Page 1 - ... the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each...
Page 1 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and...
Page 17 - On heavy soil the turnip Beet gives the best results, as the growth is nearly all at or above the surface. The long varieties, having tapering roots running deep into...
Page 22 - ... of Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 14 - ... or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment (1908).
Page 15 - Jersey citizen who is concerned in agriculture, whether farmer, manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province to render, and the Station will respond to all applications as far as lies in its power.
Page 12 - To Receipts from the Treasurer of the United States as per appropriations for fiscal year...
Page 11 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.