The agricultural experiment stations in the United States (1900) (14779948284)

Identifier: agriculturalexpe80true (find matches)

Title: The agricultural experiment stations in the United States

Year: 1900 (1900s)

Authors: True, Alfred Charles, 1853-1929 Clark, V. A. (Vinton Albert) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France) Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

Subjects: Agricultural experiment stations United States Agricultural experiment stations United States Bibliography

Publisher: Washington : Govt. Print. Off.

Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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d is not well adapted to platexperiments and only about 5 acres are thus laid out. These are infield and garden crops and small fruits. , For experimental purposes the station uses the college live stock,which consists of 58 head of cattle, 5 horses, and 70 swine, reimbursingthe college for actual expenses. The museum contains about 2,000specimens of New Hampshire flowering plants, 10,000 specimens ofNew Hampshire insects, 1,000 specimens of fungi of economic impor-tance, seeds of the principal field and garden crops, and the collectionof weed seeds sent out by the United States Department of Agricul-ture. There is a collection of 500 photographs and a considerablenumber of photo-micrographs. The station library contains about2,400 volumes. Station workers also have access to the collegelibrary. The chemist has devised a special oven for drying substancesin an atmosphere of hydrogen at the temperature of boiling water. U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 80, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate XCI.

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U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bui. 80, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate XCII.

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