Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Tema 52

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Vols. for 1889-1894, 1906-1912 issued with the Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station; vols. for 1895-1905 issued with the Annual report of the Hatch Environment Station of the Massachnusetts Agricultural College.
 

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Página 531 - By virtue of this act about $90,000 has been paid in bounties during the year and a half that has elapsed since the law went into effect. This represents the destruction of at least 128,571 of the above-mentioned animals, most of which were Hawks and Owls. Granting that...
Página 8 - June 30, 1898 ; that we have found the same well kept, and classified as above, and that the receipts for the year from the treasurer of the United States are shown to have been...
Página 535 - New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, and Oregon.
Página 5 - Observer. The co-operation and assistance of farmers, fruit-growers, horticulturists and all interested, directly or indirectly, in agriculture, are earnestly requested. Communications may be addressed to the "Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass.
Página 69 - We do not pay attention enough to the character and type of the animals in our herd. There really is not a great deal of difference in the cost of the food which the different kinds of cows ate, but see what a difference there is in what they produce! Those dairy type cows made an average profit of over $20 more per head than the other two kinds. Here it states that one of them made 511 pounds of butter, which yielded a net profit of $57.25.
Página 106 - ... acquaint him with the manner in which information is originally acquired and the world's stock of knowledge has been accumulated. "(6) To connect the school with real life and make the value and need of schooling the more apparent. "(7) As an avenue of communication between the pupil and the teacher, it being a field in which the pupil will likely have a larger bulk of information than the teacher, but in which the training of the teacher can help to more exact knowledge.
Página 18 - The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
Página 256 - ... and to make a detailed report, with names and residences of owners, to the Board of Cattle Commissioners, who shall embody the same in its annual report to the Legislature. SEC.
Página 391 - They shall be hand-picked from the tree, a bright and normal color, and shapely in form. No. 2 apples shall be hand-picked from the tree; shall not be smaller than two and one-quarter inches in diameter; the skin must not be broken or the apple bruised. This class must be faced and packed with as much care as No. 1 fruit.
Página 352 - SEC. 3. The state forester may establish and maintain a nursery for the propagation of forest tree seedlings on such lands as the trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College may set aside for that purpose on the college grounds- at, Amh'erst Seedlings from this nursery shall be furnished to the Commonwealth without expense for use upon reservations set aside for the propagation of forest growth for other than park purposes. He may distribute seeds and seedlings to landowners, citizens of the...

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