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... Farming included not only the production and sale of crops and livestock , but also cut- ting of wood for fuel and lumber , weaving and making of clothes , tanning of leather , and the manufacture of household furniture and farm ...
... Farming included not only the production and sale of crops and livestock , but also cut- ting of wood for fuel and lumber , weaving and making of clothes , tanning of leather , and the manufacture of household furniture and farm ...
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... farms " in different localities , where foreign and domestic plants and seeds should be grown and , when found useful ... Farmers ' Society was organized in 1815 , chartered in 1817 , and has its headquarters in Pendleton , Anderson ...
... farms " in different localities , where foreign and domestic plants and seeds should be grown and , when found useful ... Farmers ' Society was organized in 1815 , chartered in 1817 , and has its headquarters in Pendleton , Anderson ...
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... farms , distributed stock , seeds , and plants , and conducted corre- spondence with farmers . The Kennebec Agricultural Society was " a social organization which held no exhibitions for many years after its establishment , but had ...
... farms , distributed stock , seeds , and plants , and conducted corre- spondence with farmers . The Kennebec Agricultural Society was " a social organization which held no exhibitions for many years after its establishment , but had ...
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... farming into acceptance among leading farmers in different parts of the State , thereby exerting an exemplary influence upon others who gave to books and pamphlets no welcome ; it had set fairly at work the inventive faculty of the land ...
... farming into acceptance among leading farmers in different parts of the State , thereby exerting an exemplary influence upon others who gave to books and pamphlets no welcome ; it had set fairly at work the inventive faculty of the land ...
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... farmer was not content to follow the ordinary farm routine which his neighbors practiced ( 384 ) . He early determined to study and experiment with a view to improving agricultural conditions for himself and farmers generally . While he ...
... farmer was not content to follow the ordinary farm routine which his neighbors practiced ( 384 ) . He early determined to study and experiment with a view to improving agricultural conditions for himself and farmers generally . While he ...
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Page 204 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 100 - ... 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.
Page 100 - 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 100 - ... shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act) and 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...
Page 100 - 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 undiminished...
Page 204 - ... effects on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of...
Page 100 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 100 - Fourth. 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 99 - 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 74 - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the State for the support of a University, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called