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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 ...
Determinations of various forms of nitrogen in bovine flesh, including the products of hydrolysis of some of the proteins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
When Hausmann introduced his method for nitrogen distribution into protein analysis, he opened the way for great progress in that line of investigation. Winterstein later showed that phoaphotungstic acid would also precipitate ...
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 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 ...
Investigation upon the nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and ash content of three beef animals, with special study upon the forms of sulfur
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
This thesis explores the chemical composition of beef cattle, with special attention given to nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, and ash content. A review of previous research is provided as well as a description of an experiment ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The development of religious education in the Baptist Sunday schools of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
The purpose of this study is to find out how the Sunday school in the Baptist churches in the United States has developed in religious education. The main features with regard to which the study is made are 1) the purpose ...
The use of desiccated eggs in the home preparation of foods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 25: The problem here to be solved is a most practical one, and upon its satisfactory solution depends the value of the entire investigation. We have attempted to determine the extent to which dried eggs may ...
Non-analytic functions of a complex variable
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: It will be the purpose of this paper to discuss some of the properties of non-analytic functions of a complex variable, and to determine, if possible, some correspondences between the theory of analytic ...
The earlier political career of Thomas Hart Benton 1820-1833
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: The purpose of this study is to consider the part that was taken by Benton in the political affairs of Missouri during the earlier years of his service in the Senate, to determine what were the influences ...
The teaching of handwriting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The problem of this investigation is to study the uses of diagnosis and corrective measures in the teaching of handwriting.
The Chinese mind : a study in race psychology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
"If the Chinese men and women of like passions and abilities as ourselves, we are free to develop Chinese education on lines similar to those in the West, always being able to use the results of western progress in 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.
Art as an interpretation of history during the Hellenistic Age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
In this work, I have not been concerned so much with the trivial events and facts of art in history, as I have desired to interpret in a broader sense the political and social condition of the age through the medium of its ...