the air by symbiotic fixation. A minor experiment was added to determine the effect of quantities of organic matter on the location of nodules. In working on these problems it was found possible to obtain information of other points of interest...

and in most cases incomplete. Furthermore, a great deal of the data as presented by various investigators cannot be compared because of lack of uniformity in reporting results as well as in the selection of samples for analysis. Forbes in his bulletin on "The...

of Agricultural science. This study was made from the 1910 Census. The object sought in this investigation in farm management is to secure the elementary facts which must be utilized in organizing and conducting the business of the farm in such a way as to give...

to determine the minimum amount of this constituent necessary to promote their normal growth. With the object of determining such a figure, the Missouri Experiment Station started an experiment in August, 1913. The results of this experiment to date are given...

Text from page 174: This was an initial effort to feed silage as a part ration to horses and mules of various ages and under varying conditions at the Missouri Experiment Station. The data in the 1915-1916 tests are not sufficient to make possible...

Attention has been frequently directed to the prenatal development of various animals, as well as of man. This embryonic development of the bovine foetus is to be the subject of special investigation by the Agricultural College of the University...

to this, a somewhat detailed report and discussion is given of certain phases of the experimental work on contagious abortion which has been carried out for the past three years or more by the Department of Veterinary Science of the Experiment Station...

species (M. lucifugus, the little brown bat, and M. septentrionalis keenii, the northern long-eared bat) were collected from northern Missouri agricultural sites and from winter hibernacula in non-agricultural southern parts of the state to assess...

The use of horse flesh as a human food is a custom as old as that of using the flesh of any other food producing animal. Proof of its use by the cave men has been unearthed in Northern Europe by archaeologists. Judging ...

of Problem": It is the purpose of this investigation to secure data on the effects of adding calcium carbonate in the form of ground limestone to types of soils of common occurrence in the state of Missouri. These effects were studied in crop yields, in per...

The purpose of the digestion trials, to be discussed in this paper, was to determine the effect of various factors on the ability of the animal to digest its food. The object of these experiments is somewhat different from the great majority...

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 ...

in Chapters I. and VII. were conducted. The remaining subject matter was taken from various sources, the chief being from data collected from the swine and poultry breeding investigations under way at this Station....

"SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Missouri apple yields tend to rotate in three year cycles, the sizes of the crops produced showing the following order: heavy, light, medium, heavy, etc. A five years' study of the behavior of individual apple fruit spurs...

The special object of these experiments is to compare the efficiency and economy of rations which are conducive to rapid growth with rations of such character as to admit of but limited growth....

and America to conduct experiments during the last decade with a view of determining more accurately the action of sulfur in plant nutrition. To date, the work has not, on the whole, been conclusive nor exhaustive, and it was with the idea of studying the role...

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 ...

Text from page 77: "The conclusion of the report of the committee, "it is the duty of the Red Cross to foster and conserve such social awakening as the Red Cross has brought about and to help local communities to find ways in which they can express...

Counties: Platte, Clay, Ray, Jackson, and Lafayette...
"This is a record of the origins of the place-names of five counties of Missouri -- Platte, Clay, Ray, Jackson, and Lafayette -- as revealed by documentary and personal investigation; and a classification of these origins under what seems...

Text from introduction: This thesis is a discussion, from the standpoint of our present knowledge of the fundamental principles of animal nutrition, of the possibility of raising calves on "milk substitutes". The experimental ...