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... Mercer County Board collected and delivered an excellent collection of the products of their county . Had they con- sulted the Commissioners , they would have been saved much unneces- sary trouble , thus practically demonstrating the ...
... Mercer County Board collected and delivered an excellent collection of the products of their county . Had they con- sulted the Commissioners , they would have been saved much unneces- sary trouble , thus practically demonstrating the ...
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... MERCER COUNTY BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . Franklin Dye . Our county organization is only in its second year . We are only children when compared with stalwarts like Burlington County . I am glad to have this statement here which I am about ...
... MERCER COUNTY BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . Franklin Dye . Our county organization is only in its second year . We are only children when compared with stalwarts like Burlington County . I am glad to have this statement here which I am about ...
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... County Board of Agriculture . ... Cumberland County Board of Agriculture . Essex County Board of Agriculture . ... Gloucester County Board of Agriculture . .Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture . Mercer County Board of Agriculture ...
... County Board of Agriculture . ... Cumberland County Board of Agriculture . Essex County Board of Agriculture . ... Gloucester County Board of Agriculture . .Hunterdon County Board of Agriculture . Mercer County Board of Agriculture ...
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... Mercer county , Cooper Redling apples ; choice specimens . F. Dye , Trenton , fine specimen of corn , mixed varieties ; also , Rice wheat . Unusually fine specimens . Rev. W. W. Meech , Vineland , Meech's Prolific quince , in glass jars ...
... Mercer county , Cooper Redling apples ; choice specimens . F. Dye , Trenton , fine specimen of corn , mixed varieties ; also , Rice wheat . Unusually fine specimens . Rev. W. W. Meech , Vineland , Meech's Prolific quince , in glass jars ...
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... county in the State ; its ravages have been severe in Atlantic , Salem , Gloucester , Camden , Burlington , Mercer , and in some parts of Monmouth and Middlesex ; many farmers who owned large herds , having lost nearly the entire number ...
... county in the State ; its ravages have been severe in Atlantic , Salem , Gloucester , Camden , Burlington , Mercer , and in some parts of Monmouth and Middlesex ; many farmers who owned large herds , having lost nearly the entire number ...
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Page 206 - 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...
Page 97 - ... on the farm, and to depend upon artificial fertilizers only to furnish what more is needed. It is not good economy to pay high prices for materials which the soil may itself yield, but it is good economy to supply the lacking ones in the cheapest way. The rule in the purchase of costly commercial fertilizers should be to select those that supply, in the best forms and at the lowest cost, the plant-food which the crop needs and the soil fails to furnish.
Page 245 - We shall endeavor to advance our cause by laboring to accomplish the following objects: To develop a better and higher manhood and womanhood among ourselves. To enhance...
Page 206 - An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled 'An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,
Page 429 - The fact is, that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Page 429 - ... have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.
Page 89 - ... though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land ! There...
Page 433 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Page 106 - The eggs from the winged females are most often laid in or on the ground near the base of the vine, and they are so delicate as to require especially favorable conditions of 'temperature and moisture to enable them to hatch. They must, in my judgment, infallibly perish when deposited on anything else than the lower surface of the living...
Page 169 - ... the belly, inside of the thighs and forelegs, and about the ears. There is accelerated respiration and circulation, increased action of the flanks in breathing, tucked-up abdomen, arched back, swelling of the vulva in the female as in heat ; occasionally, also, of the sheath of the male, loss of appetite, and tenderness of the abdomen, sometimes persistent diarrhea, but generally obstinate constipation. In some cases large abraded spots are observed at the projecting points of the body, caused...