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    The Neubauer method as a means of determining the fertilizer requirements in certain Virginia soils
    Earley, Ernest Benton (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1929)
    Rye seedlings grown on differently fertilized plats at Chatham, Virginia, and at Fishersville, Virginia, for the year 1928, and tested by the Neubauer seedling method for phosphorus gave no clue to the amount and availability of the phosphatic fertilizer added. Therefore, the Neubauer seedling method as devised by Neubauer did not prove to be of value in determining the phosphorus availability of Virginia soils under the conditions prevailing in 1928.
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    Nitrogen gathering ability of legumes under different soil conditions
    Trimble, Joseph Marshall (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1915)
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    A study of milk made from condensed and powdered milks
    Holdaway, Charles W. (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1916)
    Insoluble sediments are contained in all the samples of evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and milk made from powdered milk solids that were examined. The amount of sediment was greates in the milk :powder milk, being over 13 per cent of the original substance. With the sweetened condensed milk it averaged 6.6 per cent, and 2.2 per cent with evaporated milk. The sediments from evaporated milk were coarse and granular. The coarse material had a high per cent of calcium. Granulation occurred in the milks of the least density. The granular particles are the result of recrystallization, and this takes place more quickly in fluids of low density. The sediments are characteristic of highly heated and condensed milk products, and their presence in milk would show that condensed milk or powdered milk had been used. The protein probably forms from one-half to two-th irds of this sediment. The results of the calcium, phosphorus and magnesium determinations indicate tha.t insoluble compounds are formed with these constituents. Some of the calcium is evidently in the form of carbonates and phosphates, since efferve~nce took place on addition of an acid to the granular sediment, and phosphorus was shown to be in the sediment in greater proportion than normal.