Report, Volume 17New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, 1888 - Agriculture |
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... tons of hay . The butter production amounted to 7,247,272 pounds , cheese 807,076 pounds , and wool 1,060,589 pounds . About one half the population of the State are engaged in agricultural pursuits . In the United States corn is ...
... tons of hay . The butter production amounted to 7,247,272 pounds , cheese 807,076 pounds , and wool 1,060,589 pounds . About one half the population of the State are engaged in agricultural pursuits . In the United States corn is ...
Page 24
... tons of hay is the crop annually grown and fed to thoroughbred Durham stock and some of the finest grade Durham and Hereford steers we have yet seen . He also has a superior flock of cross - bred sheep . Fourteen hundred bushels of ...
... tons of hay is the crop annually grown and fed to thoroughbred Durham stock and some of the finest grade Durham and Hereford steers we have yet seen . He also has a superior flock of cross - bred sheep . Fourteen hundred bushels of ...
Page 43
... tons per acre , and doubted if fifty could be produced . He could raise three fourths as much northern corn , by weight , as southern . It was nearly mature , September 5 , and put in the silo ears and all together . It was in a more ...
... tons per acre , and doubted if fifty could be produced . He could raise three fourths as much northern corn , by weight , as southern . It was nearly mature , September 5 , and put in the silo ears and all together . It was in a more ...
Page 52
... tons of mature corn were considered equal in feeding value to twenty - five tons of large - size corn composed of stalks and leaves . Charles McDaniel , of Springfield , member of the Board from Sullivan county and master of the State ...
... tons of mature corn were considered equal in feeding value to twenty - five tons of large - size corn composed of stalks and leaves . Charles McDaniel , of Springfield , member of the Board from Sullivan county and master of the State ...
Page 87
... tons each year since in earth trenches . At the suggestion of Mr. Morris , a treatise written by Mr. M. Goffart was translated into our language by Mr. J. B. Brown , president of the New York Plow Company , in 1879 , and in 1881 a ...
... tons each year since in earth trenches . At the suggestion of Mr. Morris , a treatise written by Mr. M. Goffart was translated into our language by Mr. J. B. Brown , president of the New York Plow Company , in 1879 , and in 1881 a ...
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Page 373 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
Page 325 - This police power of the state extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state.
Page 289 - 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 290 - 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...
Page 267 - Part further covenants and agrees to merchandise such wheat in foreign ports, it being understood and agreed between the Party of the First Part and the Party of the Second Part...
Page 264 - 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 yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 373 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same...
Page 375 - SEC. 8. That in States having colleges entitled under this section to the benefits of this act and having also agricultural experiment stations established by law separate from said colleges, such States shall be authorized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by such States...
Page 375 - That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said stations that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding annual appropriation to such station...
Page 375 - SEC. 10. Nothing in this act shall be held or construed as binding the United States to continue any payments from the Treasury to any or all the States or institutions mentioned in this act, but Congress may at any time amend suspend or repeal any or all the provisions of this act.