Experiment Station Record, Volume 18U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 |
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Page 498 - That said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts : Provided.
Page 508 - ... for this class of materials. Moreover, whatever, in the light of recent discussion, may be our attitude toward vegetarianism, or our judgment as to the necessary proteid supply, it is certainly a fact, however we may explain it, that those peoples are as a whole most efficient which consume a reasonable proportion of animal food. There were killed in...
Page 198 - ... Leeds. If we are to compete successfully with foreign countries it is necessary that the position of science in relation to tropical agriculture should be definitely recognised. The days when a botanical garden served the purpose of an entire scientific establishment in a Colony have passed away, and we now require, in order that a proper return should be obtained, and the natives assisted in their agricultural practice, a scientific department with a proper complement of specially trained officers,...
Page 569 - Further evidence of destructive metabolism of phosphorus compounds is found -in the fact that the inorganic phosphates of the milk were from three to five times greater in quantity than the total amount of such compounds in the food. The rise and fall in the amounts of outgoing phosphorus compounds...
Page 201 - ... of the medical career, so at its climax, there is an increasing need of men who have a working knowledge of several sciences which were formerly treated as distinct, and whose best representatives in medical schools labored apart each in his own field. The most promising medical research of our day makes use of biological, chemical and physical science combined. Physiology advances by making applications of the principles, the methods and the implements of all three sciences. The physiologist...
Page 569 - A greatly reduced flow of urine following a change from the unwashed bran to the washed bran ration, the reverse taking place when a reverse change was made.
Page 202 - ... bacteriologist. The world has observed, and will not forget, that some of the greatest contributors to the progress of medicine and surgery during the past thirty years have been, not physicians, but naturalists and chemists. Pasteur was a chemist, Cohn, the teacher of Koch, a botanist, and Metchnikoff a zoologist. Students of disease must, therefore, be competent to utilize in their great task every aid which natural science can furnish. How vastly is the range of medical science and medical...
Page 110 - Annual Convention of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, held at Washington, DC, August 23, 24, and 2~>.
Page 404 - Stations appointed a committee which recommended ' ' that each college represented in this association organize, as soon as practicable, a department of extension teaching in agriculture, coordinate with other departments or divisions of the agricultural work, with a competent director in charge and, if possible, with a corps of men at his disposal.
Page 569 - It is shown without question that the physiological effect of the two rations, due to the withdrawal from the bran of such compounds as were soluble in slightly acidulated water, differed to a marked degree. With the washed bran ration as compared with the one containing the unwashed bran, the following differences were observed. a. Drier and much firmer feces with the washed bran ration, accompanied by a constipated condition, requiring in some cases the use of a purgative.