Annual Report of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association, Volume 6Democrat Print. Company, State printer, 1908 - Agriculture Vols. for 14th- include the 4th- annual report of Alfalfa Order. |
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Page 34 - ... problems in the improvement of plants, fruits, animals, and housework; they have learned that improvement in one direction is not always, or even usually, accompanied by improvement in all directions; they have learned something of the value of labor, the cost of production, and the keeping of simple accounts with different farm and household affairs; they have been encouraged to read good literature and have learned some of the sources of good...
Page 34 - ... has long been a great hindrance to progress. 3. The influence upon the communities at large, the parents as well as the children, has been wholesome. Beginning with an awakened interest in one thing — better seed corn, for example — communities have rapidly extended their interest to other features of rural improvement, with the result that in the regions affected by the agricultural-club movement there has come about a general upward trend in the thoughts and activities of the people. 4....
Page 162 - The rows of kernels should extend in regular order over the butt, leaving a deep depression when the shank is removed. Opened and swelled butts, depressed and flat butts with flattened glazed kernels are objectionable and must be cut according to the judgment of the scorer.
Page 34 - Collectively they have learned the value of organized effort, of cooperation, and of compromise; and the social instinct has been developed in them — a matter of great importance in rural districts, where the isolated condition of the people has long been a great hindrance to progress. 3. The influence upon the communities at large, the parents as well as the children, has been wholesome. Beginning with an...
Page 44 - ... quantity is desired, the timber should be thinned out, as soon as such thinnings will pay for themselves, before the fierce struggle for existence begins, which lessens the increase in wood in the whole forest, though forcing the survival of the fittest. In other words, such thinnings will allow the trees to gain in diameter more rapidly, thus making quantity of wood, while if the forest had been kept dense and the...
Page 34 - ... and housework; they have learned that improvement in one direction is not always, or even usually, accompanied by improvement in all directions; they have learned something of the value of labor, the cost of production, and the keeping of simple accounts with different farm and household affairs; they have been encouraged to read good literature and have learned some of the sources of good agricultural literature; their views have been broadened by contact with others and by visiting institutions...
Page ix - OFFICERS. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, VicePresident, Secretary, and Treasurer who shall, ex-officio, constitute the general executive committee of the Association.
Page 146 - In case any tuberculous animals are found in the herd, the owner agrees to remove them at once from the healthy portion of the herd, so as to prevent further spread of the disease, and not to sell them to any person except for immediate slaughter.