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 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

A talk on Fish as Food might be introduced into this program, or a reading from Atwater's book entitled, The Chemical Composition and Nutritive Value of American Food and Fishes Invertebrates.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French

Nutritive Enemata.—Food is given by the bowel when the stomach cannot retain it.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

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