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... average yield , but the quality rather above than below an average . Still the state has corn to sell and prices better than for years past , which in part , at least , compensates for shortage in yield . While many of the counties in ...
... average yield , but the quality rather above than below an average . Still the state has corn to sell and prices better than for years past , which in part , at least , compensates for shortage in yield . While many of the counties in ...
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... average noon temperature has been 23.50 , the normal for noon temperature of January being 27.4 ° . There has been an unusual number of cold days , there being thirteen days in which the thermometer went below zero , against an average ...
... average noon temperature has been 23.50 , the normal for noon temperature of January being 27.4 ° . There has been an unusual number of cold days , there being thirteen days in which the thermometer went below zero , against an average ...
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... average velocity per hour : Crete ..... Lincoln North Platte ..... Omaha Valentine .... STATION PRECIPITATION . MILES GREATEST MEAN ...... 36 5791 40 7.8 6011 32 8.1 9053 44 12.2 The average rain for the different sections of the state ...
... average velocity per hour : Crete ..... Lincoln North Platte ..... Omaha Valentine .... STATION PRECIPITATION . MILES GREATEST MEAN ...... 36 5791 40 7.8 6011 32 8.1 9053 44 12.2 The average rain for the different sections of the state ...
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... average snowfall has been about eight inches , which is two more than the normal for February . Meas red as precipitation or melted snow , it has been less than half an inch over all of the state except the south - eastern section and ...
... average snowfall has been about eight inches , which is two more than the normal for February . Meas red as precipitation or melted snow , it has been less than half an inch over all of the state except the south - eastern section and ...
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... average rain for the different sections of the state for February , 1887 , is as follows : Inche North - east ... average by sections ... 0.57 COMPARISON OF PAST JANUARIES . The table shows the mean temperature , the noon temperature ...
... average rain for the different sections of the state for February , 1887 , is as follows : Inche North - east ... average by sections ... 0.57 COMPARISON OF PAST JANUARIES . The table shows the mean temperature , the noon temperature ...
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Page 180 - 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...
Page 179 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 180 - The grants of moneys authorized by this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories...
Page 179 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 126 - Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 180 - ... 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 180 - Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as practicable, for the tabulation of results of investigation or experiments ; to indicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem most important ; and, in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as will best promote the purposes of this act.
Page 180 - That payments of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 127 - The appropriation must be for some useful or beneficial purpose, and when the appropriator or his successor in interest ceases to use it for such a purpose the right ceases.
Page 180 - That out of the first annual appropriation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one-fifth may be expended in the erection, enlargement, or repair of a building or buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and thereafter an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropriation may be so expended.