Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volum 45,Del 1901

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Side 7 - Jersey citizen who is concerned in agriculture, whether farmer, manufacturer, or dealer, has the right to apply to the Station for any assistance that comes within its province to render, and the Station will respond to all applications as far as lies in its power.
Side 25 - ... package sold or offered for sale, the name or trade mark under which the article is sold, the name of the manufacturer or shipper, the place of manufacture, the place of business and a chemical analysis stating the...
Side 109 - Experiment Station, 1892. plowed under, under masses of dead leaves and rubbish of all sorts, the bugs pass the late fall and winter months, lying apparently dead during cold weather, but quickly coming into activity during the warm days of late spring. REMEDIES. As the chinch bug works chiefly among grass crops in Maine, many of the remedies employed against it in the West are practically worthless here. As the amount of injury during any year depends partially on the number of bugs which pass the...
Side 38 - With a few exceptions they are well up to their respective guarantees and no fault can be found with the manufacturers for their desire to sell these goods, as they are making no claims for nutrients which the goods do not contain.
Side 39 - ... but shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as distinct articles of commerce, nor pure grains ground together, nor wheat bran and middlings mixed together not mixed with any other substances and known in the trade as
Side 20 - In the manufacture of oat products for human food, the kernel of the oat is separated from the hull. Oat hulls are in themselves, low in food value, being worth but little more than the same weight of oat straw. Their value may be materially greater if broken kernels or small oats are ground in with them. Manufacturers of oat products are putting ground oat hulls on the market in many forms and mixtures, such as oat feed, oat chop, corn and oat feed, chop, etc. The bulk of all these materials is...
Side 107 - in every hour, paid or unpaid, see only that thou work, and thou canst not escape the reward : whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn, or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought: no matter, how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Side 52 - Pour the sulfate solution into the barrel or tank used for spraying, and fill one-third to one-half full of water. Slake the lime by addition of a small quantity of water, and when slaked cover freely with water and stir.
Side 8 - ... samples of the same brand sent in, the Station reserves the right to analyze only in part. STATION PUBLICATIONS. The Station publishes several bulletins each year, covering in detail its expenses, operations, investigations and results. The bulletins are mailed free to all citizens who request them. CORRESPONDENCE. As far as practicable, letters are answered the day they are received. Letters sent to individual officers are liable to remain unanswered, in case the officer addressed is absent....
Side 20 - FEEDS LOW IN PROTEIN. Very few farmers can afford to buy feeds low in protein and high in carbohydrates at any price at which they have been or are likely to be offered. The farmer should grow all the coarse feeds that he needs. Oat and similar feeds are very much like, corn stalks or oat straw in composition. Some of these feeds have cottonseed or other nitrogenous feeding stuffs added to them so that they carry more protein than straight oat feeds, but these mixtures are always more expensive sources...

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