Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment StationUniversity of Maine, 1925 |
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Albert Dickinson alphabetical by sires aphid Aphis apple scab application Augusta average butter-fat percentages Average daugh average milk yields Bangor Bordeaux mixture Bowdoinham Brand butter-fat per cent butter-fat percentage butter-fat pounds cent Octiles Average Chicago Chilmark cornicles Cottonseed Meal cows Dairymaid's daugh dust Feed Fertilizer Fort Fairfield fruit Glenwood Golden Golden Hero Golden Noble Governor Guernsey cattle Guernsey sires Guernsey Sires-Continued Haddon Herd book number Houlton Langwater lead arsenate Lewiston lime-sulphur Linda Vista Maple Milk B.F. Butter milk producers milk yield pounds Name of sire names.-Continued Octiles Average daughters Octiles butter-fat orchard Pencoyd Performance of Guernsey Pinehurst plants Portland potato pre-pink Prince progeny performance progeny's average rangement is alphabetical Raymond Rose King russeting samples Seed Sequel Sire and Sons sire Table 5-Progeny sires for milk Sons H.B. sons of Guernsey species spray Squire Station number sulphur Table 5-Progeny Performance ters milk yield trees
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Page xii - ... 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 xii - ... 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...
Page xii - 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 xii - ... 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 33 - THE PENETRATION OF PLANT TISSUES AND THE SOURCE OF FOOD SUPPLY OF APHIDS. Ann. Appl. Biol. 10: 35-54, illus.
Page v - JAMES M. BARTLETT, MS, ELMER R. TOBEY, CH. E., C. HARRY WHITE, PH. C, ' EDITH M. PATCH, PH. D., ALICE W. AVERILL, WARNER J.
Page 6 - Corn Gluten Meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that remains after the separation of the larger part of the starch, the germ and the bran, by the processes employed in the manufacture of cornstarch and glucose. It may or may not contain corn solubles.
Page 175 - ... experiments show further the fact, already indicated in previous work, that powdered sulfur applied dry does not adhere as well as sulfur applied in liquid form as lime-sulfur solution, or as the very fine sulfur precipitated" from a solution on the addition of arsenate of lead or an acid substance. In every case but one in which scab was a factor, the percentage of scab on the dusted plats was greater than on the sprayed plats, though in some cases the difference is insignificant.
Page 169 - In many cases the buds had already burst and in some cases the leaves were well out, while in others only the tips of the young leaves were beginning to appear." It may be mentioned also that many of these young leaves were badly burned by the treatment. These injurious effects were temporary, simply tending to delay the appearance of the foliage somewhat. In a short time it "was as abundant and vigorous as in any of the neighboring orchards.
Page 273 - The results of all analyses of articles of food made by said director shall be published by him in the bulletins or reports of the Experiment Station, together with the names of the persons from whom the samples were obtained, and the names of the manufacturers thereof.