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The best winter ration for the dairy heifer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The increasing demand for dairy cows, and cows of greater efficiency has led to a more systematized rearing of the dairy heifer. The need of a winter ration, considering the economic price and amount of food consumed, is ...
The cost of milk production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
This condition of milk prices has lead to considerable unrest in the dairy industry. State and federal experts have studied the problem, and extension and country agricultural workers, city chambers of commerce, special ...
Winter rations for dairy heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"Comparatively little experimental data are as yet available concerning these problems of raising heifers. The purpose of the author in conducting the experiments reported in this thesis was to add to the data now available ...
Physiological changes occurring in plant tissue as a result of stimuli administered to break the rest period
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
It is a matter of common knowledge that most of our woody plants do not grow continuously throughout the year. The fact is brought to our attention especially in spring, when we may observe the awakening of the vegetation ...
Investigation of the rest period of seeds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
In all plants, including fungi and algae, as well as higher forms, this periodicity of growth, due to season, nutrition, environment, etc., is seen. Practically all temperate zone plants exhibit a yearly periodicity. The ...
Winter rations for dairy heifers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
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.
Farmers' mutual insurance in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
The only form of co-operation which has been successful among the farmers of Missouri and in fact the farmers of the entire United States, is the present existing mutual insurance companies. This kind of co-operation has ...
A plan for the reorganization of rural school administration in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from the Introduction: An increasing nrunber of students of social conditions are coming to regard the country school as one of the most pressing problems of our national life. In building, equipment, curriculum, ...
Study of the factors influencing the composition of beef fat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
The views upon the origin of body fat have undergone a number of changes in the last sixty or seventy years. These views have changed from the idea that body fat originated from the ingested fat to the later views that it ...
Prenatal growth of the pig
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1910)
Numerous observations on various phases of growth are to be found in the biological literature. Most of those concerning prenatal growth are upon the human embryo; although scattered observations are also recorded on other ...
Control of insects infesting stored products by insecticide-treated bags
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"Agricultural products in storage are often subject to serious attacks by insects. Insect damage to various stored materials constitutes an old problem and a considerable amount of research has been devoted to it...the ...
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 ...
The electoral franchise in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 21: "It is the purpose of this paper to show the changes which nave taken place in the composition of the electorate of the State of Missouri and to point out, where this is possible, how these changes are ...
High school records and reports
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
records for these purposes at least, using the same units of measurements and the same terminology in each case? One portion of this paper is an answer to this question, in that it presents and explains a uniform system of records and reports which...
Some features of scoring as a tool in beef cattle selection
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"It is the purpose of this paper to actually evaluate the effectiveness of such as method as a measure of animal improvement; to determine if these phenotypic comparisons can actually foretell the final value of an animal, ...
The morphological changes of the purkinje cells of the cerebellum in heat exhaustion in correlation with the changes of normal functional activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
The condition of heat exhaustion, insolation or heat stroke has, in the past ten years, been thoroughly studied from a clinical point of view by observations of the signs and symptoms of the recovery cases, together with autopsies of the fatal cases...
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 ...
Church Federation in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
1. A Divided Church. The 1906 Census Report on Religious Bodies gives the number of Protestant denominations in the United States as 164. We are so accustomed to this divided condition of Christendom, having no experience ...
Methods of marketing Missouri apples
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Abstract taken from the Introduction section of this thesis: Missouri is the leading state in number of apple trees, yet it ranks fourth in yield and in total value. In comparison with other states, Missouri is twenty-eighth ...
The effect of calcium carbonate of certain soil constituents and on plant growth
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This thesis examines the use of calcium bicarbonate (lime) as soil augmentation. It covers the physical, physiological, bacteriological, and chemical effects of lime in soils, and also the historical use of lime and its ...