Browsing College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (MU) by Thesis Semester "1912"
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Bacteria concerned in the making of salt-rising bread.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)Salt-rising bread is a kind of leavened bread, which is made light not by the introduction of yeast, as with yeast cakes or by mechanical aeration or by carbon dioxide liberated from chemical compounds, such as baking ... -
Cytological studies on the zygospores of Sporodinia grandis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)In recent years much interest has been aroused in the cytology of the lower fungi, and considerable work has been done upon these forms. While various members of different groups have been studied, the most definite results ... -
Distribution of labor and its relation to farm management
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)The following pages are devoted to a study of labor conditions on four Missouri farms, in an effort to determine if possible, just what those conditions are. The work was started in the spring of 1910, under the direction ... -
Effect of cotton seed meal upon the churnability of cream, and the market qualities of the butter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)The results of the investigations already carried out along the line of the effect of cotton seed meal upon butter have been marked by a lack of uniformity of results. In view of this it seems desirable to conduct this ... -
A histological study of the marsupium of the unionidae
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)In connection with the extensive investigation of the Unionidae which has been conducted by the Bureau of Fisheries for the past four years, with a view to determining the feasibility of artificial propagation of the mussel ... -
Influence of various factors, principally transpiration, upon infection of wheat and barley plants by the powdery mildew
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)Erysiphe Graminis is the powdery mildew which grows upon the Gramineae (Grass family). Something like fifty-five species of the family are affected by this fungus. Among these species are the cereals wheat, barley, oats, ... -
The per cent of fat in milk as influenced by the fatness of the cow and the plane of nutrition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)The question of the fatness of the cow and plane of nutrition as effecting the per cent of fat in milk has been under investigation at the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station for a period of three years. An interest ... -
Relation of the physical structure of the fruit bud of the peach to hardiness.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship of the structure of fruit buds of the peach to hardiness, and, to add to the general knowledge regarding death of plant tissue resulting from exposure to low ... -
The removal of lime from the ash of cow feces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)While employed in the Government Dairy Research Laboratories at Columbia, Missouri, the writer had occasion to conduct the analytical work in a mineral nutrition experiment conducted on dairy cattle. The principal constituent ... -
Study in efficiency of farm machinery in its relation to farm labor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)The data presented in the following pages is an attempt to establish standards of farm labor from observations of actual practices. It was collected from personal observations by the writer and Mr. L. E. DeVinna of Versailles, ... -
A study of conformation and the correlation of parts in ears of maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)Volume upon volume has been written and page after page of statistical material has been compiled in regard to the yield of corn, the various varieties, the many soil requirements and the fertilizing problems. Notwithstanding ... -
Study of the chemical composition of a full-term bovine foetus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)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 ... -
Study of the coloring matter in milk serum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)During the course of an investigation of the natural pigments of milk carried on in the Research Laboratories of the Dairy Department, at the University of Missouri, it became evident that more than one pigment existed in ... -
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 ...