The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 14D.J. Powers & Company, 1862 - Agriculture |
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... four . Oxen are more patient than horses , and will carry a more even yoke . They start a load better than horses , particu- larly in a snow path , where the runners stick to the snow . Oxen can be entrusted with hired men at less risk ...
... four . Oxen are more patient than horses , and will carry a more even yoke . They start a load better than horses , particu- larly in a snow path , where the runners stick to the snow . Oxen can be entrusted with hired men at less risk ...
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... four times . The results of each weighing will be found tabulated in another column ; we will here therefore , only allude to the last . After four months ' grazing , supple- mented by 3 lbs . of linseed cake per day , from the 17th of ...
... four times . The results of each weighing will be found tabulated in another column ; we will here therefore , only allude to the last . After four months ' grazing , supple- mented by 3 lbs . of linseed cake per day , from the 17th of ...
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... four months . The first year requires more goods for sold- iers than the subsequent two or three years , the following being the Government allowance of clothing each year , for five years , by the United States army regulations : Hats ...
... four months . The first year requires more goods for sold- iers than the subsequent two or three years , the following being the Government allowance of clothing each year , for five years , by the United States army regulations : Hats ...
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... four corn- sity of protection to half hardy , and even har- dy trees and plants from the extremes and sud- den changes of the weather during the winter , and especially after the first days of January . But little damage is done before ...
... four corn- sity of protection to half hardy , and even har- dy trees and plants from the extremes and sud- den changes of the weather during the winter , and especially after the first days of January . But little damage is done before ...
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... four- teen or fifteen quarts . THE GATHERING , If from a large number of trees , cannot be economically done without a horse and sled . The old fashioned sap - yoke is of service where the grove is small and the " camp " centrally ...
... four- teen or fifteen quarts . THE GATHERING , If from a large number of trees , cannot be economically done without a horse and sled . The old fashioned sap - yoke is of service where the grove is small and the " camp " centrally ...
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Page 388 - 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 389 - 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 388 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less per acre: And provided further.
Page 388 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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...
Page 193 - Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 'Tis nothing: a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle; Not an officer lost, — only one of the men, Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle." All quiet along the Potomac...
Page 388 - 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 whicl> it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 25 - Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie! Around her knees domestic .duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 388 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks...
Page 388 - ... 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 one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to which said State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share...
Page 388 - ... 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, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.