nutritive

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A man must be a "plugger" who can produce a 120-page annual report on agriculture covering the entire field from "Swine Sanitation" to the "Nutritive Value of Wheat Bran."

From Time Magazine Archive

Nutritive value of dry-farm hay, straw, and flour All the parts of dry-farm crops are highly nutritious.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas

The Nutrition of Man.54.Compiled from different sources, but mainly from Atwater's Foods: Nutritive Value and Cost, published by the U.S.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Nutritive chamber: an enlarged section of ovarian tube, filled with granular nutritive material used in developing the egg cells.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Nutritive Values—The nutritive elements of foodstuffs are protein, a little mineral matter, fats, and carbohydrates.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam