Annual Report of the Director of the Agricultural Station ... |
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acid phosphate air-slaked lime ammonium chlorid amount Analyses of Commercial animals Annual Report applied average Bordeaux mixture breeding brooder Bulletin bushels calcium carbonate calcium chlorid caustic magnesia cent chemical Chemist chickens chicks clover color Commercial Fertilizers crop culture disease division effect of lime eggs laid farm Farmer feed feeding-stuffs Fertile Eggs Field Experiments fowls fruit geese Glen Mary grams grass grms growth hatch Horticultural humus inches incubator Indian corn June lettuce magnesium magnesium chlorid manure Mean temperature MELVILLE BULL Minimum temperature month muriate of potash N.E. Cloudy nest nitrate of soda nitrogen number of eggs oats oxid Partly cloudy phosphoric acid plants plot pot experiments Potato Scab poultry pounds per acre precipitation Report of Director Rhode Island Reds rotation S.W. Clear S.W. Fair seed sodium carbonate sown sulfate of ammonia sulfur tion Total number trees unlimed Variable varieties WEATHER SUMMARY yield
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Page 366 - June 30, 1900 ; that we have found the same well kept and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the Treasurer of the United States are shown to have been...
Page 197 - State militia; took an active part in establishing the naval reserve militia of the State; has been one of board of managers of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Experiment Station since its establishment in 1888; in November, 1892, was a candidate for Congress, receiving 640 plurality, but, the laws of Rhode Island requiring a majority at that time, was not elected; was elected to the Fifty-fourth...
Page 213 - ... in the latter part of May and the first part of June, 1932, and that the first shipment of said* compound was on July 3, 1932.
Page 382 - Journ. agr. res. n: 573-605. 1917 b. WHEELER, HJ, HARTWELL, BL, AND MOORE, NLC Upon the after effect of sulfur, when applied to soils for the purpose of preventing potato-scab. Rhode Island Agr. Exp. Sta. Ann. rept.
Page 385 - ... no sodium. From the outcome of the experiments the author concludes; " These results clearly show that sodium may fill a very important function in case of a deficiency in potassium and that it is therefore not to be regarded as an altogether useless plant constituent." Extensive field experiments " On the substitution of soda for, and its value in connection with, potash " have been carried on at the Rhode Island Experiment Station9 since 1894. At the beginning, potash and soda were substituted...
Page 184 - ISLAND College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. HENRY L. GREENE, President, - - River Point, RI, Kent Co.
Page 223 - " 20. The Production of Capons. Experiments in Caponizing. Prices of Capons, Broilers, Roasters, and Fowls in Boston and New York Markets. When to Make Capons, the Time to Sell, and How to Prepare for Market. Caponizing Tools, and How to Perform the Operation 42 *
Page 339 - In the immense majority of both plants and animals, it is certain that the germ is not merely a body in which life is dormant or potential, but that it is itself simply a detached portion of the substance of a pre-existing living body...
Page 373 - S15.000.00, and the corresponding disbursements $15,000.00; for all of which proper vouchers are on file and have been by us examined and found correct.
Page 281 - THE CHEAPER NATURAL PHOSPHATES OR THE MORE COSTLY ACIDULATED PHOSPHATES. Field F. The field selected for this purpose is 300 feet long and 137 feet wide, running on a level from east to west. Previous to 1887 it was used as a meadow, which was well worn out at that time, yielding but a scanty crop of English hay. During the autumn of 1887 the sod was turned under and left in that state over winter. It was decided to prepare the field for special experiments with phosphoric acid by a systematic exhaustion...