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... Bee - keeping , by Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper .--- Model piggery , by Paschall Morris ...... . Long - wool sheep , by J. R. Dodge .--- Alsike clover , translated from " Handbook of Swedish Agriculture " by J. Arrhenius . 352 355 368 396 408 ...
... Bee - keeping , by Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper .--- Model piggery , by Paschall Morris ...... . Long - wool sheep , by J. R. Dodge .--- Alsike clover , translated from " Handbook of Swedish Agriculture " by J. Arrhenius . 352 355 368 396 408 ...
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... bees ; others state that it selects only the drones . In defence of this bird , I will state that the stomach of one exam- ined in May contained May bugs , but no bees ; and another shot by a farmer , who suspected it of taking his bees ...
... bees ; others state that it selects only the drones . In defence of this bird , I will state that the stomach of one exam- ined in May contained May bugs , but no bees ; and another shot by a farmer , who suspected it of taking his bees ...
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... bees , flies , and cynips of various kinds also make part of their repast . " Swallows and martins are exceedingly useful in destroying small insects when flying in the air , and thus help to keep down the multitudes of gnats , mosqui ...
... bees , flies , and cynips of various kinds also make part of their repast . " Swallows and martins are exceedingly useful in destroying small insects when flying in the air , and thus help to keep down the multitudes of gnats , mosqui ...
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... bees . " Those shot , however , were found to contain only wild seeds . The towee finch , or ground robin , frequents dense thickets near water , and is said to be particularly fond of Iulide . It also feeds upon worms , larvæ , and ...
... bees . " Those shot , however , were found to contain only wild seeds . The towee finch , or ground robin , frequents dense thickets near water , and is said to be particularly fond of Iulide . It also feeds upon worms , larvæ , and ...
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... bees were recommended as being more peaceable and industrious than the common hive bee . Those ex- hibited were of a lighter color than ours , and had two broad light brown bands across the base of the abdomen . The centre of the ...
... bees were recommended as being more peaceable and industrious than the common hive bee . Those ex- hibited were of a lighter color than ours , and had two broad light brown bands across the base of the abdomen . The centre of the ...
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Page 140 - 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 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 '-* may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
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 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...
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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.
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Page 226 - The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.
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...