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Página 204 - ... lessons in agriculture. Rooms in the new building will be equipped for cooking, sewing and general instruction along all lines of the course. Course of Study. — The course of study for boys includes work in the quality and composition of soils, plant life, vegetable gardening, crops, animal husbandry, dairying, poultry, economic insects, farm accounts, blacksmithing and other metal work, carpentry and rural building. The course of study for girls includes work in sewing, cooking, home economy...
Página 615 - It is designed to be a review of the whole field of municipal engineering and sanitation rather than an exhaustive study of one or a few branches of the subject. The most vital points, however, under each class of activities and interests have been dwelt upon, the underlying principles stated, and in many instances details from actual practice given.
Página 627 - ... the steady inculcation of those supreme ideals through which the human race is uplifted and ennobled — the ideals of beauty, honor, duty, and love.
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Página 287 - ... milked. When no more milk is obtained by this manipulation, the hind quarters are milked by placing a hand on the outside of each quarter, likewise with fingers spread and turned upward, but with the thumb just in front of the hind quarter. The hands are lifted, and grasp into the gland from behind and from the side, after which they are lowered to draw the milk. The manipulation is repeated until no more milk is obtained.
Página 286 - ... in the division between the two halves of the udder. The hands are now pressed toward each other and at the same time lifted toward the body of the cow. This pressing and lifting is repeated three times, the milk collected in the milk cistern is then milked out, and the manipulation repeated until no more milk is obtained in this way, when the left quarters are treated in the same way. "Second Manipulation: The glands are pressed together from the side. The fore quarters are milked each by itself...
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Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Experiment Station Record, Volume 14 |
| Autor | United States. Office of Experiment Stations |
| Colaborador | United States. Department of Agriculture. States Relations Service |
| Editora | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 |
| Original de | Universidade da Califórnia |
| Digitalizado | 20 Jul 2007 |
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