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Page 180 - L., 1895.] [AN ACT Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents...
Page 143 - States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.
Page xxxii - In each of the states of Alabama, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York a separate station is maintained wholly or in part by state funds, and in Louisiana a station for sugar experiments is maintained partly by funds contributed by sugar planters. Excluding the branch stations established in several states, the total number of stations in the United States is 54.
Page 181 - Agriculture, which includes a report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations in the United States...
Page 190 - Losses in Boiling Vegetables and the Composition and Digestibility of Potatoes and Eggs. By H. Snyder, AJ Frisby, and AP Bryant. Pp. 31. Price 5 cents. Bui. 44. Report of Preliminary Investigations on the Metabolism of Nitrogen and Carbon in the Human Organism, with a Respiration Calorimeter of Special Construction. By W. O.
Page 124 - March 2, 1887, can legally be used, either directly or indirectly, for paying the salaries or wages of professors, teachers, or other persons whose duties are confined to teaching, administration, or other work in connection with the courses of instruction given in the colleges with which the stations...
Page 128 - It submits tentatively, however, that Congress might be asked to provide for the establishment of an administrative office in Washington, preferably in the Smithsonian Institution, in which graduate students of the institutions we represent, and others as well, might be enrolled and directed U> the appropriate department.
Page 9 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910.
Page 28 - Since, however, all chemicals which have the properties of preserving foods, also have a tendency to interfere with the processes of digestion, it is held to be imperative that no food should be offered for sale which contains a preservative without having this fact plainly stated upon the label of the package. Not only should the label state that the food product contains a preservative, but it should also give the name of the preservative and the quantity employed. In this way the intending purchaser...
Page 142 - Department thus received, it has been determined to confine the work on irrigation at present to two general lines: (1) The collation and publication of information regarding the laws and institutions of the irrigated region in their relation to agriculture, and (2) the publication of available information regarding the use of irrigation waters in agriculture, as determined by actual experience of farmers and experimental investigations, and the encouragement of further investigations in this line...