Bulletin - Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, Issues 184-196Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 1914 - Agriculture |
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2.5 percent milk acid acres Actinomyces animals apples average bark Bellows Falls Bordeaux Brainerd brands Brattleboro brown bulletin Burlington bushels Calories catkins Champlain Clover common corn corn oil cottonseed meal crop disease dry matter Eggleston Farmers feeding feet Fernald Fertilizer forest frequent fruit gain glabrous grade grain grams Grass Gray green growth guaranty Holstein homogenized inches long increased in weight Jersey Lake Champlain Leaf leaves light lime lower altitudes manure meal Michx milk carrying approximately Milling Moist monoecious N. F. Flynn nitrogen normal milk oats occasional percent fat percent total solids percentage petioles phosphate phosphoric acid pine Pistillate plant food potash potato potato scab pounds Pringle protein Quaker Oats Co ration red-brown Rhod rotation Rutland sapwood sawdust scab seed silage skimmilk soil species spruce Staminate Station swamps TABLE tracheids trees trunk U. S. Dept W. H. Blanchard wheat wood
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Page 40 - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 303 - Cottonseed meal is a product of the cottonseed only, composed principally of the kernel with such portion of the hull as is necessary in the manufacture of oil ; provided that nothing shall be recognized as cottonseed meal that do'es not conform to the foregoing definition and that does not contain at least 36 per cent of protein.
Page 303 - Prime Cottonseed Meal must be finely ground, not necessarily bolted, of sweet odor, reasonably bright in color, yellow, not brown or reddish, free from excess of lint, and must contain at least 38.6 per cent of protein.
Page 236 - Meaning growth ring. Ring-porous. Said of wood whose large pores are collected Into a row or band In each growth ring. Rough. Harsh to the touch; pubescent. Rugose. Wrinkled. Samara. An indehiscent winged fruit. Sapwood. The living outer portion of a trunk or large branch of a tree between the heartwood and the bark. Page 195, VIII, b. Scalariform. Having markings suggestive of a ladder. Scales. Small modified leaves, usually thin and scarious, seen in buds and cones; the flakes into which the outer...
Page 173 - ... it conspicuous again. The leaves of the silver maple turn yellow and those of the sugar maple yellow or red, but not the crimson or deep red of the red maple. It is distinguished from the sugar maple by its smoother, dark gray bark and by the deeper acute incisions of the leaves although they arc subject to much variation.
Page 305 - Corn gluten meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that remains after the separation of the larger part of the starch, the germ and the bran by the processes employed in the manufacture of cornstarch and glucose. It may or may not contain corn solubles.
Page 313 - Grits are the hard, flinty portions of Indian corn, without hulls and germ. Hominy Meal, Hominy Feed or Hominy Chop is a mixture of the bran coating, the germ and a part of the starchy portion of the corn kernel obtained in the manufacture of hominy grits for human consumption. Corn Gluten Meal is that part of commercial shelled corn that remains after the separation of the larger part of the starch, the germ and the bran, by the processes employed in the manufacture of cornstarch and glucose.
Page 235 - Minutely pubescent. Pubescence. A covering of short, soft hairs. Pubescent. Covered with short, soft hairs. Punctate. Dotted with translucent or colored dots or pits. Raceme. A simple inflorescence of flowers on pedicels of equal length arranged on a common, elongated axis (rachis).
Page 103 - Betula alba papyrifera (Marsh.) Spach. [Betula papyrifera Marsh.] HABIT. — A tree 50-75 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 1-3 feet, forming in youth a compact, pyramidal crown of many slender branches, becoming in old age a long, branchless trunk with a broad, open crown, composed of a few large limbs ascending at an acute angle, with almost horizontal branches and a slender, flexible spray. LEAVES. — Alternate, simple, 2-3 inches long...
Page 232 - Branching regularly in pairs. Diffuse-porous. Said of wood whose pores are nearly uniform in size and more or less evenly diffused through both spring and summer wood. Digitate. Said of a compound leaf in which the leaflets are borne at the apex of the petiole; finger-shaped. Dioecious. Unisexual, with staminate and pistillate flowers on different individuals. Distribution. The geographical extent and limits of a species. Divergent. Said of buds, cones, etc., which point away from the twig, or of...