The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 23

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Halaman 271 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Halaman 505 - When displayed on poles, the signals should be arranged to read downward ; when displayed from horizontal supports, a small streamer should be attached to indicate the point from which the signals are to be read.
Halaman 517 - Society shall hold its annual meetings at the time and place of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association. Other meetings may be held when authorized by the Society or by the Executive Committee.
Halaman 470 - The thermometers are then whirled rapidly for fifteen or twenty seconds ; stopped and quickly read, the wet bulb first. This reading is kept in mind, the psychrometer immediately whirled again and a second reading taken. This is repeated three or four times, or more if necessary, until at least two successive readings of the wet bulb are found to agree very closely, thereby showing that it has reached its lowest temperature.
Halaman 291 - Wash the cars and the feeding and watering troughs with water until clean. (c.) Saturate the walls and floors of the cars and the fencing, troughs and chutes of the pens with a solution made by dissolving four ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of water, or disinfect the cars with a jet of steam under a pressure of not less than fifty pounds to the square inch.
Halaman 98 - The individual who causes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is held in highest emulation as a benefactor of his race.
Halaman 236 - I cannot hide that some have striven, Achieving calm, to whom was given The joy that mixes man with Heaven "Who, rowing hard against the stream, Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, And did not dream it was a dream...
Halaman 291 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.
Halaman 185 - With the single exception of 1887, another year of severe drouth, this is the smallest aggregate grown in any year since 1881. It is only 70 per cent of last year's great crop, but the disparity in commercial corn between the two seasons is even greater. The seven States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska are the corn-surplus States, practically furnishing all that enters commercial channels. The crop in the other States is consumed where grown, and it exerts an influence...
Halaman 465 - Was the storm preceded by a noticeable or suddeii rise previous to the fall ? Note the state of the barometer, and the time when the fall becomes more rapid. Its state, and the time, when it is lowest and when the rise begins. The highest point which it reaches during or immediately after the storm. If alternations of rising and falling take place, the fact should be mentioned and the time noted. The thermometer. — The fluctuations of the thermometer...

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