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Page 12
... four car - loads of strawberries alone have been shipped from there in a single day , besides large quantities of other fruit and produce in season . I merely mention this fact as an illustration of what may be done with this land ...
... four car - loads of strawberries alone have been shipped from there in a single day , besides large quantities of other fruit and produce in season . I merely mention this fact as an illustration of what may be done with this land ...
Page 36
... four large tables filled with exhibits , corn , grain , fruits , nuts , & c . , as our worthy Secretary asked every one to bring samples of his farm products along with him . We have heard a great deal here to - day about the big crops ...
... four large tables filled with exhibits , corn , grain , fruits , nuts , & c . , as our worthy Secretary asked every one to bring samples of his farm products along with him . We have heard a great deal here to - day about the big crops ...
Page 37
... four hours afterwards I cannot bear my hand on it . I cover it over with plaster . Friend Rogers , there , thinks it should be cov- ered with kainit . The Chair . - In regard to this question of MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING . 37.
... four hours afterwards I cannot bear my hand on it . I cover it over with plaster . Friend Rogers , there , thinks it should be cov- ered with kainit . The Chair . - In regard to this question of MINUTES OF ANNUAL MEETING . 37.
Page 40
... four and a half feet apart makes just sixty stacks to the acre ; at four feet apart , seventy - five stacks to the acre . I have seen good crops of corn , but it takes good corn to turn out more than one bushel of corn to the stack . At ...
... four and a half feet apart makes just sixty stacks to the acre ; at four feet apart , seventy - five stacks to the acre . I have seen good crops of corn , but it takes good corn to turn out more than one bushel of corn to the stack . At ...
Page 44
... four years . Before I got it , it had been very much neglected , and nothing had been grown on it . I do not think there had been a crop grown on it for three years or more , and the weeds had run out . The soil was very light in 1880 ...
... four years . Before I got it , it had been very much neglected , and nothing had been grown on it . I do not think there had been a crop grown on it for three years or more , and the weeds had run out . The soil was very light in 1880 ...
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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...