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... improved seeds , nor of obtaining them if he had . It has been a special employment of this Department to seek and obtain seeds of a superior quality , appropriate them to the climate best adapted to their profitable use , and place ...
... improved seeds , nor of obtaining them if he had . It has been a special employment of this Department to seek and obtain seeds of a superior quality , appropriate them to the climate best adapted to their profitable use , and place ...
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... 2,969 65 Improvement of grounds 19,300 00 179,339 74 Leaving a balance unexpended of $ 1,278.82 . This amount will cover all unsettled bills incurred by the Department during the last fiscal REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER . 7.
... 2,969 65 Improvement of grounds 19,300 00 179,339 74 Leaving a balance unexpended of $ 1,278.82 . This amount will cover all unsettled bills incurred by the Department during the last fiscal REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER . 7.
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... improving on the 1st of April , and in Levy County the increase of calves was reported at 100 per cent . greater than usual . But two counties heard from ( Jefferson and Volusia ) made favorable re- turns . Lack of food and shelter ...
... improving on the 1st of April , and in Levy County the increase of calves was reported at 100 per cent . greater than usual . But two counties heard from ( Jefferson and Volusia ) made favorable re- turns . Lack of food and shelter ...
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... improvement in quality and enlargement of the dairy interest . A few examples will show the direction and ex- tent of these changes during the past eight years : States . Massachusetts 1873 . 1872. 1871 . 1870. 1869. 1868 . 1867. 1866 ...
... improvement in quality and enlargement of the dairy interest . A few examples will show the direction and ex- tent of these changes during the past eight years : States . Massachusetts 1873 . 1872. 1871 . 1870. 1869. 1868 . 1867. 1866 ...
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... improvement of the Central Ohio butter , which now begins to rival the famed Western Reserve , both in quality and in preparation for market . The extreme range of prices for Central Ohio butter during the last commercial year was from ...
... improvement of the Central Ohio butter , which now begins to rival the famed Western Reserve , both in quality and in preparation for market . The extreme range of prices for Central Ohio butter during the last commercial year was from ...
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Page 390 - VILLE.— The School of Chemical Manures : Or, Elementary Principles in the Use of Fertilizing Agents. From the French of M. GEO. VILLE, by AA FESQUET, Chemist and Engineer. With Illustrations.
Page 369 - to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics.
Page 275 - ... ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land ; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third. Their cattle are allowed to wander through the woods and...
Page 301 - Ibs. of bone dust is sufficient to supply three crops of wheat, clover, potatoes, turnips, &c., with phosphates. But the form in which they are restored to a soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily are they assimilated.
Page 7 - Congress, keeping pace with this expression of public sentiment, at its last session made a liberal appropriation for "a system of observations and reports, in charge of the Chief Signal-Officer of the Army, for such stations, reports, and signals as may be found necessary for the benefit of agriculture and commercial interests," thus responding to the universal sentiment,
Page 369 - February 7, 1872, authorizing the board of education to sell the congressional land-scrip, and invest it in bonds of the State of Virginia or of the United States, or in any other safe bonds or stocks, for the support of one or more industrial schools. In accordance with this act, the land was sold for $285,000, and $192,000 of this sum have been paid in and invested in Virginia State bonds, at G per cent, annually.
Page 296 - ... a gain in ten years of very nearly $200,000,000. This, of course, includes the porkpacking business, till recently confined, to a large extent, to certain Western cities, but now carried on as a growing business at many convenient points along our great lines of railway in other parts of the country. Improvement in swine began less than threequarters of a century ago. The first that excited any general interest was made by some animals sent from Woburn Abbey, by the Duke of Bedford, to General...
Page 277 - The thrashing was done with the flail. The winnowing was done by the wind. Slow and laborious hand-labor for nearly all the processes of the farm was the rule, and machine-labor the exception, till a comparatively recent date. Indeed, it has been said that a strong man could have carried on his shoulders all the implements used on his farm, except, perhaps, the old wooden cart and the harrow, previous to the beginning of the present century, and we know that the number as well as the variety of these...
Page 285 - Paris, each machine having about an acre to cut. Three machines were entered for the first trial, one American, one English, and a third from Algiers, all at the same time raking as well as cutting. The American machine did its work in twenty-two minutes, the English in sixty-six, and the Algerian in seventy-two. At a subsequent trial on the same piece...
Page 453 - June, put more flesh on cattle than bluegrass; but ho would iiofc recommend this for later pasturage. The greatest difficulty encountered by graziers was the short pasturage from the last week in July to the first week in September ; and if any one could discover a grass which would provide good pasturage during this period he would confer a great blessing on the country. The best pasturage he had been able to provide for bridging over this gap was red clover and orchard grass. The