Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California1913 - Agriculture |
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Page xi - Meyer, of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page xviii - Lute of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, for the identification of seeds found in the stomachs.
Page viii - In some states this work has been done in cooperation with the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Page 1 - ... opened in the morning or when the animal is driven. At a later stage of the disease it may be heard at any time of the day. Cows do not usually appear to cough up anything. This is because they do not spit. Most of the material coughed up from the lungs is swallowed, but many tuberculosis germs escape from the mouth in the form of spray or are discharged from the nose.
Page xix - Frost l lead us to doubt that the fly is the usual agent in spreading the disease in nature. 3. On the basis of the evidence now at hand we should continue to isolate persons sick with poliomyelitis or convalescent, and we should attempt to limit the formation of human carriers and to detect and control them. Screening of...
Page 9 - Any person who shall violate the provisions of this article with respect to the plugging of an abandoned well shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine of not less than...
Page 128 - ... inch in diameter; nut shallowly sulcate, the walls rather thin and with two broad cavities upon each side. (J. rupestris, var. major, Torrey in Sitgreave's Report, p. 171, t. 16.) — A large shrub or tree, in the vicinity of San Francisco growing 40-60 feet high and 2-4 feet in diameter, and ranging southward to Santa Barbara, Southern Arizona and Sonora.
Page 560 - Breast, moderately wide, full 2 Legs, straight, short, strong, bone clean; pasterns upright; feet medium size 2...
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Page xv - In the dietary studies made in connection with the nutrition investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agriculture...