The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

The Influence of Compost Amendment or Straw Mulch on the Reduction of Gas Exchange in Potato by Verticillium dahliae and Pratylenchus penetrans

M. P. N. Gent, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504; J. A. LaMondia, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Windsor 06095; F. J. Ferrandino and W. H. Elmer, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504; and K. A. Stoner, Dep...

The Impact of the Northeast Dairy Compact : A Comparative Evaluation of Two Studies

This research was supported by USDA CSRS Research Grant No. 99-34178-7572, the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, and the University of Connecticut. It was not commissioned or supported by the Northeast Dairy Compact commission or any other outside agency. The authors are Director of the Food Marketing Policy Center and Research Scientist in the Center respectively. We acknowledge the secr...

Changes in Certain Water-soluble Nitrogenous Constituents of Burley Tobacco during Curing.

Introduction An investigation of the chemical changes that take place in tobacco during curing is in progress at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. Attempts are being made to determine what the normal changes are and how they are influenced by such variables as temperature and relative humidity, which have been shown to influence the final quality of tobacco. A study of this type add...

Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Annual Report of Accomplishments and Results FY 2000 Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

The Influence of Samuel W. Johnson on the Chemistry of Proteins *

Samuel W. Johnson, professor of Agricultural Chemistry in Yale University from 1856 to 1896, was the guiding spirit in the establishment of agricultural experiment stations in America. He was the director of the Connecticut Station from 1877 until his retirement in 1900, and was the outstanding agricultural chemist of this country throughout the latter half of the past century. His name is stil...