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Page vi - The President, and in his absence, the Vice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Association.
Page 163 - The constitution provides that "this constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting...
Page 135 - What would be the result? In five staples only in the United States alone the inexhaustible forces of Nature would produce annually without effort and without cost, 5,200,000 extra bushels of corn, 15,000,000 extra bushels of wheat, 20,000,000 extra bushels of oats, 1,500,000 extra bushels of barley, 21,000,000 extra bushels of potatoes.
Page 115 - Slake the lime in a small quantity of hot water, add the sulfur gradually and stir thoroughly. Dilute the mixture to 15 gallons with water, and boil in an iron kettle, or cook by steam in a barrel for forty-five minutes. Fill the vessel with water to the required 50 gallons ; strain the wash through a fine mesh strainer, and apply hot.
Page 135 - Cultivation and care may help plants to do better work temporarily, but by breeding plants may be brought into existence which will do better work always, in all places and for all 'time. Plants are to be produced which will perform their appointed work better, quicker and with the utmost precision.
Page 135 - ... and thus with better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, and flowers will the earth be transformed, man's thoughts turned from the base, destructive forces into the nobler productive ones which will lift him to higher planes of action toward that happy day when man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruits, and fairer flowers.
Page 135 - ... potato to each plant, or an apple, plum, orange, or nut to each tree. What would be the result? In five staples only, in the United States alone, the inexhaustible forces...
Page 135 - ... bushels of potatoes. But these vast possibilities are not alone for one year, or for our own time or race, but are beneficent legacies for every man, woman and child who shall ever inhabit the earth.
Page 139 - ... are straight, long and free from lateral branches. This is right, for those that are branched are more difficult and hence more expensive to gather. Now, certain growers of beet seed in the north of France once formed the idea — thinking, no doubt, in this way to improve their varieties — of growing the plants which were to be used as seed stocks in very rich, deeply worked soil where they were very much crowded -together; so much so that 16 to 20, or even more, grew on one square meter of...
Page 139 - The result was that the beet assumed the form, and later the length of a thick whipstock. They were not branched because the roots were very closely crowded together. Their sugar content was abnormally high as a result of their growing so close together, and the conclusions drawn from the form of the roots and their sugar content, as determined in the laboratory, were tainted with error because they did not represent qualities truly acquired, but modifications accidentally imposed by external conditions....