Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hus, takingthe decomposing power of the yellow as 100, that of thegreen will be 37.2 ; blue, 22.1 ; indigo, 25.4 ; violet, 7.1. Onthe side of less refrangibility, we have orange, 63.0 ; red,25.4. Evils of Chip Manure.—Perhaps no greater injuryhas ever been done in horticulture than the recommenda-tion by inexperienced writers of chip manure as a dressing.Its danger arises mainly from its ready disposition tospread fungi, which inevitably arise in soils naturally alittle moist and tenacious. When once formed, such fungispread with astonishing rapidity, totally preventing growthand finally killing the plants. (u8) Some specimens of plants collected by Dr. Bessels inPolaris Bay, and presented by him to Captain Markham,were recently submitted to Dr. J. D. Hooker for deter-mination, as being the most northern point where anyphanerogamous plants were ever secured. The speciesproved to be Draba alpina, L. ; Cerastiutn alpznum, L. >Taraxacum densleoms, Desf. var.; and Poa Jlexuosa, Wahl.
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■ --VO-V ... ;. AGRICULTURE AND RURAL. ECONOMY^ 361 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. AMERICAN PROGRESS IN STOCK BREEDING. In nearly all matters relating to industrial and materialprogress, the United States are making unquestionableadvance, the basis of which is individual effort. Hereevery man aspires to better his condition, and tries to at-tain improvement in whatever his hand may find to do.If a mechanician, he is not satisfied until his devices aremade superior to the old-fashioned styles. If a horse-breeder, his mind is given to the raising of a stock thatshall beat the world. This pervading spirit of enterprise,this constant study for improvement ramifies into almostevery pursuit, and the general result is an elevation of thequality of American productions, which makes them spe-cially sought for in foreign lands. An exemplification of this is seen in the circumstancesconnected with a recent cattle sale at New-York Mills, N.Y., near Utica, at the farm of Mr. Samuel Campbell. The

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