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Страница 4 - 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...
Страница 53 - And we further certify that the expenditures have been solely for the purposes set forth in the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1887.
Страница 11 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and...
Страница 7 - Tinder this project, Dean Knight studies varieties of grain, alfalfa, potatoes, and other crops which are best suited to Nevada soils and climate. Project 25. Methods of Increasing Hay Production in the Humboldt Valley, Nevada. (Hatch Fund.) 1919-1924. Project Leader, CS Knight. For some years it has been evident that in the Humboldt Valley the yield of hay has been less than it should be because of the methods of irrigation employed. It is the purpose of this project to show the effect of different...
Страница 52 - All the methods employed are similar to those in use by the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey, and care has been exercised to instruct the men in these fundamentals.
Страница 18 - The Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture is certainly entitled to credit for the patience and persistence with which its representative, Mr.
Страница 4 - We, the undersigned, duly appointed Auditors of the Corporation, do hereby certify that we have examined the books and accounts of the...
Страница 27 - The corn grown at the Experiment Station reaches the proper stage of maturity about the middle of September. After harvesting, the sunflower was cut into pieces about threefourths of an inch long with an ensilage cutter and placed in the silo. Later it was fed in connection with alfalfa hay and rolled barley to the University dairy herd with excellent results. The coarse stems and heads, including the seed, went through the proper stages of fermentation and worked up into a mealy succulent pulp which...
Страница 30 - Although the growth was checked by the heavy frost early in September, a uniform crop of excellent heavy brush was formed with the two varieties of broom-corn. The Dwarf Broom-corn made the heaviest growth of 25,535 pounds of forage per acre, but the Red and White Kafirs showed a greater proportion of leaf growth and thus were considered more profitable for forage. The average yield per acre of the Improved...
Страница 27 - ... acreage of this crop increases. Sudan grass will grow on all well-drained soils of Nevada, although, like most other crops, it produces the best results on the fertile loam soils. When planted in rows and given continuous cultivation this crop will withstand considerable drought. The planting must be delayed until the danger of late spring killing frosts has passed. At the Experiment Station the practice has been to sow from the 15th to the 25th of May. If the crop is to be grown for forage,...

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