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acreage acres Agricultural Experiment Station aphids apples sold Aroostook ascospores Assistant Assistant Assistant Laboratory Assistant average number Baldwin barrels bearing orchards bearing trees Ben Davis blueberry Breeding and Nutrition buds Bulletin butter-fat percentage cent City condition cooperative cornicles cows crops cutworm Cyr Plantation Davis diseases DONALD FOLSOM Dover-Foxcroft eggs fall varieties FARM EXPENDITURES feeding females fertilizer Fort Fairfield foxglove fruit growers Guernsey cattle Guernsey sires Head of Department Highmoor Highmoor Farm important insect Inspection Analyses KARL SAX Labor Income livestock Maine Agricultural Experiment manure marketing McIntosh Milk Secretion milk yield moths non-bearing trees number of bearing number of trees ORONO Oxford County pasture pea aphids percentage and butter-fat Perkins Township Ph.D Piscataquis County Plantation potato pre-pink progeny performance range receipts scab season seedlings Spraying and Dusting spraying or dusting summer sweet corn Table total number Township value of land WALDO COUNTY willow-herbs wingless winter wireworms worms
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Page vii - ... 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 case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective...
Page viii - The funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting investigations or making experiments bearing directly on the production, manufacture, preparation, use, distribution, and marketing of agricultural products, and including such scientific researches as have for their purpose the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and efficient agricultural industry, and such economic and sociological investigations as have for their purpose the...
Page vii - 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 water; the...
Page vii - ... 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 202 - ... painfully evident as they had devoured everything in the nature of a leaf, and had, prompted by hunger, even eaten the young bark of such plants as poplars, willows, cherry, sumach and others (fig. 14, plate IV). All the foliage of the plants that had found a home in this region since the great fire in 1893 seemed to be to the taste of these worms.
Page 120 - The adult flights come during the last week of September and the first two weeks of October.
Page 50 - farm' for census purposes, is all the land which is directly farmed by one person, either by his own labor alone or with the assistance of members of his household or hired employees. The land operated by a partnership is likewise considered a farm. A 'farm...
Page 227 - ... between the employee who has served 30 years and the employee who has served 15 years will be the differential. An employee at the age of 60, having served 15 years, will have contributed just as much to the retirement fund as he would have contributed had he served only 15 years at the age of 62. The question might also be raised as to whether or not the plan to permit voluntary retirement at the age of 62, after having rendered 15 years of service, is relatively unfair to the 30-year group,...
Page 50 - Land in farms. — The acreage designated as "All land in farms" includes considerable areas of land not actually under cultivation and some not even used for pasture, since each farmer was asked to report as a unit all the land under his control, or rather all the land which he thought of as a part of his farm. Isolated tracts of timberland and other areas not connected with the farm were not included.
Page 20 - Circ. 43 (2nd. ed.), 10 p., illus. (6) CORY, EN 1923. DUSTING FOR THE PEA APHIS. Jour. Econ. Ent. 16: 81-84. (7) DAVIS, JJ 1915. THE PEA APHIS WITH RELATION TO FORAGE CROPS. US Dept. Agr. Bui. 276, 67 p., illus. (8) DOOLITTLE, SP and JONES, FR 1925. THE MOSAIC DISEASE IN THE GARDEN PEA AND OTHER LEGUMES. Phytopathology. 15 : 763-772. (9) FOLSOM, JW 1909. THE INSECT PESTS OF CLOVER AND ALFALFA. 111. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 134: 113-197, illus. (10) GILLETTE, CP 1911. PLANT LOUSE NOTES. Jour. Econ. Ent....