The Missouri Yearbook of Agriculture: Annual Report, Volume 1The Board, 1866 - Agriculture |
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... corn - this crop being the most extensively cultivated perhaps of any other . A late number of the Rural World says : " It is the practice of many of our Western farmers to gather their corn during the fall and winter , and place it in ...
... corn - this crop being the most extensively cultivated perhaps of any other . A late number of the Rural World says : " It is the practice of many of our Western farmers to gather their corn during the fall and winter , and place it in ...
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... corn will make , there is no doubt it would be found in many instances that they are sinking money every year by feeding corn to their stock of landpikes . In this respect , as well as in many others , farmers are too careless about ...
... corn will make , there is no doubt it would be found in many instances that they are sinking money every year by feeding corn to their stock of landpikes . In this respect , as well as in many others , farmers are too careless about ...
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... corn . Comparatively little corn , if fed under all the favor- able circumstances mentioned by Mr. Lillie , and it is highly probable that the yield obtained is much oftener under eight pounds per bushel than over . Those who have an ...
... corn . Comparatively little corn , if fed under all the favor- able circumstances mentioned by Mr. Lillie , and it is highly probable that the yield obtained is much oftener under eight pounds per bushel than over . Those who have an ...
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... corn , which is fed to large herds of swine or cattle , or horses or mules , and when these are sold , they bring a large sum of money ; or , they raise large crops of wheat , hemp or tobacco , or keep large flocks of sheep , and their ...
... corn , which is fed to large herds of swine or cattle , or horses or mules , and when these are sold , they bring a large sum of money ; or , they raise large crops of wheat , hemp or tobacco , or keep large flocks of sheep , and their ...
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... corn and cob meal and three pints of shorts daily , and for the past week corn stalks once a day . Her greatest yield of milk in any one day since June 1 , was 58 pounds ; the smallest was 43 pounds . " The difference in value between ...
... corn and cob meal and three pints of shorts daily , and for the past week corn stalks once a day . Her greatest yield of milk in any one day since June 1 , was 58 pounds ; the smallest was 43 pounds . " The difference in value between ...
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Page 130 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue to each of the States in which there is not the quantity of public lands subject to sale at private entry at...
Page 130 - That there be granted to the several States for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State, a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty : Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 131 - ... First. If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever...
Page 417 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 148 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 131 - Any state which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such state shall cease...
Page 131 - ... the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 131 - An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their cost and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful...
Page 234 - ... may be, give such further donations and privileges to those already established as may be necessary to secure the objects of their institution; and it shall be the duty of the general assembly, at their next session, to provide effectual measures for the improvement and permanent security of the funds and endowments of such institutions.
Page 234 - The Legislature shall encourage, by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement. The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this State for the support of schools...