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The distribution of farm labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
It is important that a farmer know the labor requirements in the productions of the various crops and in the production of the various classes of livestock, and that he know what influence a combination of crops and stock ...
The use of fats in cooking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
The cost of food is the all important question at the present time. Our people must be fed. The problem is to discover what available foods will give the most nutritive value at a minimum cost. When we observe that a pound ...
A statistical study of the reliability of scale grading
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Introduction [partial]: The purpose of this paper is to determine the reliability of a series of grades obtained by the use of the Ayres Measuring Scale for Handwriting. In order to make clearer the meaning of the results ...
The care of the dependent classes in Columbia, Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
It would seem at first thought that Columbia would have no serious charity problem, that it is so advantageously situated that poverty and dependency would be reduced to a minimum. The city has a population of 13,122, most ...
Varietal resistance of oats to Puccinia Coronifera
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Oats grow best in a cool, rather moist climate, and are most largely produced in the North Temperate Zone. Among the leading countries in the production of this crop are the United States, European Russia, Germany, France, ...
Absorption of gases by charcoal in vacua
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Work of Dewar and Others. -- That charcoal is a good obsorbent of gases has long been know. The subject was first investigate by Saussure, and a detailed examination of this property of charcoal was made by Hunter (Phil. ...
The children in Shakespeare's plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: In the study of Shakespeare's plays, the major characters have been considered almost exclusively; the minor characters have been largely neglected or ignored. Highly important among these minor characters ...
The morality play: medieval and modern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: Furthermore the medieval drama has proved a source of inspiration to certain modern men of letters as well as to certain writers whose chief aim is the appeal to the popular taste, so that we have a ...
Some phases of narrative art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 76: "The progress of narrative art, especially in its relation to naturalism, has been traced. Though it cannot be maintained that narrative art is characteristic cf naturalistic periods, it has been shown ...
Some effects of the application of sulfur to a soil
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 14: Data have accumulated showing that as much as forty pounds of sulfur per acre are lost annually in drainage water, while only about one fifth of this amount is brought to the soil in rain and snow. With ...
Interior decoration for boys and girls in the public schools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
In this thesis the writer has attempted to collect some material which might serve as suggestions for boys and girls in our public schools. The interior decoration is dealt with from the standpoint of young people and ...
The Coccidae of scale insects of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from pages 1-2: Missouri stands almost surrounded by her sister states without having given her contributions to coccidology along with the others. Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio has each added much to our ...
An investigation of the dipping and fumigation of nusery stock
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: While engaged in the work, many problems, confronting the nurserymen, concerning the eradication of San Jose scale from nursery stock, have been brought to his attention. As a result, a number of experiments ...
Milk substitutes, powdered skimmilk for raising calves
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
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 ...
The pure milk problem of the small town. A survey and movement for improving the milk supply of St. Charles, MO.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 9: There is need for considerable study of the exact importance of the milk problem of the small town and of the proper means of remedying bad conditions. In this work the agricultural colleges should be of ...
A study of the absorption and loss of soil moisture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: "The object in carrying out the investigation here reported has been to determine certain facts which would help to formulate the correct idea of moisture movements. The investigation not only includes a ...
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 ...
The value of in-breeding in the improvement of the domestic animals
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
In this paper I shall take the stand of a neutral, and all literature and available material of value upon the subject both for and against, will be studied with a view of determining our present knowledge of in-breeding ...
Browning and the Florentine Renaissance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
There seem to me to be three distinct causes why Florence rather than any of the other city states was the center of the Italian Renaissance. The first of these is that she preserved her popular government long enough to ...
A study of the poems of Francois Villon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page iii: The present study will rather be confined to an attempt to give a comprehensive view of Villon's work with such details as will be needed to make clear both the man and his work, which are inseparably ...