Yearbook of agriculture. 1924

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925

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Strana 220 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina.
Strana 341 - While conceding the full value and validity of the thesis as applied to that portion of the United States lying east of the Rocky Mountains, it is the purpose of this present paper to demonstrate that west of those mountains, in the Pacific Northwest, or the old Oregon country, the evolution of civilization did not follow the lines so successfully elaborated by Prof.
Strana 483 - Peninsula from which it has been able to determine the average date of the last killing frost in spring and the first in autumn and using these dates as boundaries, we can mark the average beginning and ending of crop...
Strana 477 - The United States may be divided into an eastern and a western half, characterized, broadly speaking, one by a sufficient and the other by an insufficient amount of rainfall for the successful production of crops by ordinary farming methods. The North Pacific coast and several...
Strana 229 - Forced liquidation and hasty selling impaired the farmer's buying power, and this, in turn, brought about a reduced demand for the products of industry. Bank deposits were being withdrawn and reserves depleted, loans could not be collected, and the stability of our whole agricultural and banking structure was seriously threatened.
Strana 225 - System, discount notes, drafts, and bills of exchange issued or drawn for an agricultural purpose, or based upon live stock, and having a maturity, at the time of discount, exclusive of days of grace, not exceeding nine months...
Strana 110 - No road should be improved by expenditure of public funds in excess of its earning capacity. The return to the public in the form of economic transportation is the sole measure of the justification for the degree of improvement.
Strana 492 - ... latter case later. The greatest spring tide will happen when the moon is in perigee, if other things are the same ; and the succeeding spring tide when the moon is in apogee will be the least. But as the effect of a luminary is greater the nearer it approaches to the plane of the equator, K and as the earth is nearer the sun in winter than in summer, and still nearer in February and October than in March and September ; the greatest tides happen not till some time after the autumnal equinox,...
Strana 742 - Jan. 15 Feb. 15 Mar. 15 Apr. 15 May 15 June 15 July 15 Aug.
Strana 20 - Economics, and this organization came into existence in 1922 charged with the exercise of all the powers and the performance of all the duties formerly imposed by law on the three separate bureaus.

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