Word: planting
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Prices are at times affected by the capitalization of corporations,--so much so that the laws of Massachusetts and some other states require capitalization to be fixed at the actual cash value of the plant. Promoters and organizers of combinations, however, prefer to capitalize on a basis of earning-power, the profits, in most cases, being concealed from the public. In order to pay dividends on a capitalization of from two to six times the cost of the plant, prices are some times put considerably above competitive rates, and if the organization has acquired a virtual monopoly, it is often...
...with making masses of trees useful to man. Upon its results depends to a great extent the industrial future of the United States; over fifty per cent. of our country's area must eventually come under its activities. The great work of the forester will be to plant the treeless West, and to master the economic problems connected with lumbering in its relation to taxes...
...cooking at both halls is done by means of steam from the boilers of the engine rooms. The washing, drying and ironing is also done by steam, and steam power is used for freezing the ice-cream. The lighting at Randall Hall is furnished by an isolated electric plant. Among other improvements are a steam ventilating fan and a heated table which keeps the food hot from the time it leaves the kitchen until the moment it is served. The waste at Memorial is collected in baskets every morning and about fifty poor families are supplied with...
...Toxic Action of Carbon Compounds; Mar. 31, The Physiological and Chemical Properties of Antiseptics; Apr.7, The Influence of Chemical compounds on Tissue Formation; Apr. 14, the Influence of Chemical Compounds on the Vital Functions; Apr. 28, Chemotaxis and Related Phenomena; May 5, Some Economic Phases of Plant Toxicology...
Professor Goodale and Mr. D. Ames, of the Harvard Botanic Garden, has just returned from a visit to Cuba where they have been examining the subject of the "sending" of the sugar cane. They have had an exceptional opportunity for investigating the flowers of the plant in January, through the kindness of Mr. E. F. Atkins, proprietor of a large sugar estate at Soledad, near Cienfuegos. Most of the flowers, however, were found to be too immature, but it was possible to point out to three men employed by Mr. Atkins on his plantation, the proper method of conducting...