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Page 529 - By virtue of this act about $90,000 has been paid in bounties during the year and a half that has elapsed since the law went into effect. This represents the destruction of at least 128,571 of the above-mentioned animals, most of which were Hawks and Owls. Granting that...
Page 533 - New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, and Oregon.
Page 36 - ... set before him in the examination paper. The treatment of these topics is designed to test the candidate's power of clear and accurate expression, and will call for only a general knowledge of the substance of the books.
Page 106 - June 30, 1902; 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...
Page 103 - Chemist (foods and feeding). Assistant in Foods and Feeding. Assistant Entomologist. Assistant Horticulturist. Assistant Horticulturist. Observer. The co-operation and assistance of farmers, fruitgrowers, horticulturists and all interested, directly or indirectly, in agriculture, are earnestly requested. Communications may be addressed to the " Hatch Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass.
Page 38 - In any triangle, the product of two sides is equal to the product of the segments of the third side formed by the bisector of the opposite angle plus the square of the bisector.
Page 256 - ... in which neat cattle are kept, with reference to their situation, cleanliness, light, ventilation, and water supply, and the general condition and cleanliness of the said neat...
Page 389 - They shall be hand-picked from the tree, a bright and normal color, and shapely in form. No. 2 apples shall be hand-picked from the tree; shall not be smaller than two and onequarter inches in diameter; the skin must not be broken or the apple bruised. This class must be faced and packed with as much care as No. 1 fruit.
Page 69 - We do not pay attention enough to the character and type of the animals in our herd. There really is not a great deal of difference in the cost of the food which the different kinds of cows ate, but see what a difference there is in what they produce! Those dairy type cows made an average profit of over $20 more per head than the other two kinds. Here it states that one of them made 511 pounds of butter, which yielded a net profit of $57.25.
Page 106 - ... acquaint him with the manner in which information is originally acquired and the world's stock of knowledge has been accumulated. "(6) To connect the school with real life and make the value and need of schooling the more apparent. "(7) As an avenue of communication between the pupil and the teacher, it being a field in which the pupil will likely have a larger bulk of information than the teacher, but in which the training of the teacher can help to more exact knowledge.