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Title: Report on the work and expenditures of the agricultural experiment stations for the year ended …
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States.: Office of Experiment Stations
Subjects: Agricultural experiment stations--United States Agriculture--United States.
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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rity. A paper on growing sugar beets for factories is appended. Bulletin 43 (Technical Series JVb. 3), pp. 31, Jigs. 4.—Colorado Lepidop-tera.—A Feiv New Species of Deltocephalus and Althysanus from Colo-rado—A List of Original Types, etc., in Collection.—List of species ofColorado Lepidoptera, with their accessions, catalogue number, notes,and remarks; technical descriptions of five new species of Deltocepha-lus ;ind one of Althysanus, and a list of original types of species in thesuperfamily Jassoidea now in the station collection. Bulletin 1 /, pp. 30.—Further Noteson the Birds of Colorado.—An appen-dix to Bulletin M of the station on the Birds of Colorado, containingcorrections, additional notes, etc. Tenth Annual Report, 1897, pp. 110.—This contains a financial state-ment for the fiscal year ending dune 30, 1807; the station organizationlist; inventory of station property^ text of the liatch Act; brief U. S Dept. of Agri.. Bui. 61, Office of Expt. Stations Plate II.
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AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 23 extracts from Circular 20 of the Office of Experiment Stations, andfrom the report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 181)7; subject list ofstation bulletins 1-40; a report by the director dealing largely with thestatus of the station and substations, financially and otherwise, and theinterrelationship of the college and station; and short reports bythe heads of departments and by the superintendents of the substationsat Arkansas Valley and Cheyenne Wells. The report of the irrigationengineer summarizes the work of this department during the year inthe measurement of return waters from irrigation, evaporation fromreservoirs, water available for irrigation in different streams, the useand fall of water in Mreatns, with fluctuation in rainfall and tempera-ture, duty of water on farms, observations on ground water, durationof sunshine, measurements of solar energy, soil temperatures, atmos-pheric pressure, etc. The reports of the substations deal pri

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