Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866 - Agriculture |
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... birds , and model fruits belonging to Mr. Townend Glover , entomologist of the de- partment , should be purchased by the government , and made the nucleus of a national agricultural and economic museum . This subject is earnestly ...
... birds , and model fruits belonging to Mr. Townend Glover , entomologist of the de- partment , should be purchased by the government , and made the nucleus of a national agricultural and economic museum . This subject is earnestly ...
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... birds , insects , insect plates and model fruits , for the benefit of all coming here for information . The voluntary contributions for the year , as will be seen by the list appended , though not as numerous as might have been wished ...
... birds , insects , insect plates and model fruits , for the benefit of all coming here for information . The voluntary contributions for the year , as will be seen by the list appended , though not as numerous as might have been wished ...
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... birds mounted in the museum number nearly six hundred , the greater part of them being insectivorous birds of this country . A knowledge of their nature and habits is of as much importance to the farmer and fruit culturist as is the ...
... birds mounted in the museum number nearly six hundred , the greater part of them being insectivorous birds of this country . A knowledge of their nature and habits is of as much importance to the farmer and fruit culturist as is the ...
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... birds , was found to be filled with grasshoppers , and con- tained not the slightest vestige of feathers or bones of birds . This bird was remarkably fat . A red - shouldered hawk , or winter - falcon , shot in November , was found ...
... birds , was found to be filled with grasshoppers , and con- tained not the slightest vestige of feathers or bones of birds . This bird was remarkably fat . A red - shouldered hawk , or winter - falcon , shot in November , was found ...
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... birds , I am unable at present to answer this ques- tion . A piece of bark injured by this bird , sent to the Smithsonian Institute , was certainly eaten out regularly in large square or round holes , as if for the sake of the young ...
... birds , I am unable at present to answer this ques- tion . A piece of bark injured by this bird , sent to the Smithsonian Institute , was certainly eaten out regularly in large square or round holes , as if for the sake of the young ...
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Page 140 - ... 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 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 355 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 355 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 140 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 226 - There are parts of Asia Minor, of Northern Africa, of Greece, and even of Alpine Europe, where the operation of causes set in action by man has brought the face of the earth to a desolation almost as complete as that of the moon; and though, within that brief space of time which we call "the historical period...
Page 355 - Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Page 140 - That all the expenses of management, superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disbursement of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they...
Page 235 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 140 - 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...
Page 168 - I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.