The Food Supply of the Great Lakes; and Some Experiments on its Amount and Distribution

Authors

Henry B. Ward, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Date of this Version

January 1896

Comments

Published in PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, vol. 17 (1896), pp. 242-254. Re-issued in STUDIES FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

Abstract

The subject of agriculture has received for many years the closest attention of scientific workers. Not only the character of the different products, their food value for different uses and in connection with the raising of different kinds of stock ; but also the value of the soil, the use of each element in it, the exact relation of each individual particle in the entire chain of biological relations from the unorganized matter to the saleable beef or pork, has received from the experiment stations of the country the most careful study. Every one of the pests, of the enemies which threaten any agricultural product, be it plant or animal, has been the object of similar active inquiry.