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Minimum protein requirements for the growth of dairy heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
herein. It has not been the intention to show the relative value of different rations. The practical value of the experiment will lie in the results obtained rather than in the methods used....
The action of Digitalis on the cardiac inhibitory centre
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
So long has digitalis been in use as a clinical drug and so long has its action been the subject of experimentation that it would seem that there is little hope of presenting anything new on the subject. Yet so long as ...
Work stock management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this investigation is to arrive at some conclusion or determine, if possible, the most satisfactory means or methods of management of the work stock or work animals on the farms in actual operation.
A study of the effect of the periods of gestation and lactation upon the growth and composition of swine
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Growth is at the base of organic production. In recent years an increasing importance has been attached to its study and to the conditions affecting it. Davenport says: "The importance of the study of growth cannot be over estimated. The maintenance...
Horse flesh and its digestibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
important food supplies. Today, horse flesh in practically every country where used has more secret buyers than open admires. It is cheaper than other meats, which stimulates its use among the poorer classes. It is to be noticed that on a whole the prejudice...
Protein requirements for dairy heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
of protein necessary for normal growth of dairy heifers. In treating this subject, the work has been taken up more from a practical then a scientific standpoint. No attempt has been made to go thoughly into the chemical or physiological study of the problem...
Age as a factor in animal breeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
the experiment has not been more than 2 1/2 years old and data at the disposal of the writer is not at all sufficient to give any conclusive results. In the following pages, first the views of biologists and practical breeders have been given and then the results...
The incidental teaching of English composition in the high school
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
At the present time, when the efficiency of every department of school work is being questioned, when real improvement is being made in the school as an adequate preparation for life, the question of the value of formal ...
Untrained children in industry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
What becomes of the thousands of children who drop out of the St. Louis schools each year on reaching the age of fourteen when the compulsory education law no longer compels their attendance? They are just at the age when ...
Study of the phenomenon of barrenness in corn
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1911)
and comment to both practical farmers and agricultural investigators as well. Strange as it may seem, however, there has been practically no work done to discover why the maize plant, or any other grain normally bisexual, should be sterile. Many theories have...
The effects of various planes of nutrition upon the cost of maintenance, reproduction, and development of beef cows
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
The frequency with which valuable animals reproduce themselves has always been a factor of economic importance in the pure bred cattle business. Great economic changes during the last few years have made this an important ...
The effect of digitalis on the cardiac peripheral neuro-muscular complex
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The question of the action on the animal organism of the principles found in the leaves and flowers of Digitalis purpurea has long been one of absorbing interest. A glance at the long list of articles dealing with researches ...
The presence of Nissl's bodies and neurofibrillae in the freshly fixed spinal nerve cell
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
Since the discovery of Nissl's bodies and neurofibrillae much work has been done on these structures. Nevertheless, some have even questioned their presence in the living nerve cell and have considered them as artifacts. ...
A study of the effects of cotton seed products upon the composition of butter fat and the churnability of cream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
Practical feeders raise many objections to the feeding of cotton seed meal. In addition to various alleged evil effects on the health of animals to which no consideration will be given in this thesis, cotton seed meal has been held to have certain...
The effect of liming an acid soil on the growth of certain legumes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The experimental work for this thesis was planned to secure information as to the effect of limestone applied to an acid soil (1) on the growth of legumes, (2) on the activities of tuberclue bacteria, and (3) on the amount ...
Sex variability
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
in considering very diverse aspects of the physical and psychic phenomena of human life. One of these is the greater variability of the male; this is true for almost the whole of the field we have covered, and it has social and practical consequences...
A comparison of methods of determining the amount of radium in rocks and minerals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
This paper is chiefly the outcome of a study of the radioactivity of the rock at different depths from the surface obtained during the drilling of the University deep well number 2. The first method described by J. Joly ...
Elementary agriculture for city high schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The experience of teaching Agriculture in the high school for a number of years has impressed upon the writer the need of a more careful selection of material than is indicated by most of the text book in Elementary ...
General consideration of the calcium and phosphorus in the ration of growing cattle
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
The object of this experiment was to compare two rations, one of high calcium and phosphorus content and the other of low calcium and phosphorus content, in their effects upon growing calves.
Study of difficult churning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
There is at the present time a lack of definite knowledge as to why cream, at certain times, fails to give up its fat in the form of butter. This trouble occurs most commonly where only one or two cows are kept, the usual ...