Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin, Volume 1

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Democrat Printing Company, state printers, 1884
 

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Page 5 - There shall be levied and collected annually a state tax of one-eighth (1-8) of one (1) mill for each dollar of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the state...
Page 87 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the Direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Page 7 - Wisconsin, and a description of it was first published in the report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Wisconsin for the year 1890.
Page 83 - Provide a tea cup, some large papers, and for each sample a glass fruit can, holding about one quart, that can be tightly closed, all to be clean and dry. 2. Weigh separately at least three (3) average packages (barrels or bags) of the fertilizer, and enter these actual weights in the " Form for Description of Sample.
Page 6 - Society; twenty-five copies to each county horticultural society that shall report its organization, with officers elect, and give an abstract of its proceedings for publication in said volume to the secretary of the State Horticultural Society; one hundred copies to the State...
Page 84 - The object of these instructions is to insure that the sample sent shall be a fair representative of the lot sampled. The Station also furnishes the following: FORM FOR DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLE. Station No Received at Station 18 Each sample of Fertilizer sent for gratuitous analyt-is must be accompanied by one of these forms, with blanks below filled out fully and legibly.
Page 6 - Association, and such other matters pertaining to the dairy interests of the state as shall be deemed most important; provided the number of pages shall not exceed one hundred and fifty.
Page 83 - The subjoined instructions, if faithfully followed, will insure a fair sample. Especial care should be observed that the sample neither gains nor loses moisture during the sampling or sending, as may easily happen in extremes of weather, or from even short exposure to sun and wind, or from keeping in a poorly closed vessel.
Page 5 - ... a full compensation for all deficiencies in said income, arising from the disposition of the lands donated to the state by congress, in trust, for the benefit of said incomes.
Page 89 - The monthly means are constantly from 0.1 to 0.4 inch below the means of twenty years' observations for these months. They are accordingly omitted here. Table I. gives the mean monthly barometer at 32°; mean monthly temperature, Fahr.; maximum and minimum recorded temperature for the month; the range of temperature for the month, which is the difference of the maximum and minimum temperatures; the rainfall for the month; the mean monthly relative humidity; the number of days on which rain or snow...

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