Farmers' Bulletin, Issues 76-100U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 |
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Page 43 - States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page 44 - During the latter part of May and the first part of June, in the case of nearly all prominent shadetree insects, one or two thorough sprayings must be made.
Page 13 - The soap, first finely divided, Is dissolved in the water by boiling and immediately added, boiling hot, away from the fire, to the kerosene. The whole mixture is then agitated violently while hot by being pumped back upon itself with a force pump and direct-discharge nozzle throwing a strong stream, preferably one-eighth inch in diameter. After from three to five minutes...
Page 19 - The first, which may last several months, is a period of hallucination or mania accompanied by defective eyesight, during which the animal may perform all sorts of antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food, and the second stage is ushered in. This is a lingering period of emaciation, characterized by sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair, and feeble movements. The animal dies as if from starvation, in periods ranging from a few months to one or two years.
Page 8 - With potash the form does not exert so great an influence upon availability as is the case with nitrogen and phosphoric acid. All forms are freely soluble, in water, and are believed to be nearly if not quite equally available as food. The form of the potash has an important influence upon the quality of certain crops.
Page 27 - EXTRACT includes starch, sugar, gums, and the like, and forms an important part of all feeding stuffs, but especially of most grains. FAT, or the materials dissolved from a feeding stuff by ether, is a substance of mixed character, and may include, besides real fats, wax, the green coloring matter of plants, etc. The fat of food is either stored up in the body as fat or burned, to furnish heat and energy.
Page 44 - July to destroy the elm leaf-beetle larvae as they are descending to the ground and to burn the webs of the first generation of the fall webworm. This will finish the summer work. The winter work will consist of the destruction of the eggs of the white-marked tussock moth, the cocoons of the fall webworm, and the bags of the bagworm. The number of men to be employed and the time occupied will depend upon the exigencies of the case. Upon the thoroughness of this work will depend, to a large extent,...
Page 1 - Many of our roads were originally laid out without any attention to general topography, and in most cases followed the settler's path from cabin to cabin, the pig trail, or ran along the boundary lines of the farms regardless of grades or direction. Most of them remain today where they were located years ago, and where untold labor, expense, and energy have been wasted in trying to haul over them and in endeavors to improve their deplorable condition. The great error is made of continuing to follow...
Page 12 - Fig. 25. Bush Hooks. in fact be said that the whole problem of the improvement and maintenance of ordinary country roads is one of drainage. In the preparation of the wheelway all stumps, brush, vegetable matter, rocks and boulders should be removed from the surface and the resulting holes filled in with clean earth. The roadbed having Fig.
Page 21 - There is a widespread notion that fish contains large proportions of phosphorus, and on that account is particularly valuable as brain food. The percentages of phosphorus in specimens thus far analyzed are not larger than are found in the flesh of other animals used for food. But, even if the flesh be richer in phosphorus, there is no experimental evidence to warrant the assumption that fish is more valuable than meats or other food material for the nourishment of the brain.