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... manure ......... - $ 210 92 82 bushels seed wheat ... Plowing for soiling crop .. 4S 28 1 65 260 85 $ 10,885 05 $ 10,885 05 STATEMENT Of Receipts and Expenditures of College Farm for the STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . 29.
... manure ......... - $ 210 92 82 bushels seed wheat ... Plowing for soiling crop .. 4S 28 1 65 260 85 $ 10,885 05 $ 10,885 05 STATEMENT Of Receipts and Expenditures of College Farm for the STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . 29.
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... bushels to the acre , he has a handsome margin of profit from the field ; but if he has twenty acres poorly tilled , yielding half that amount per acre , it has really cost him more than the crop will bring . If a man's crops cost him ...
... bushels to the acre , he has a handsome margin of profit from the field ; but if he has twenty acres poorly tilled , yielding half that amount per acre , it has really cost him more than the crop will bring . If a man's crops cost him ...
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... bushels per acre . Oats . For reasons already suggested , and the failure to put in the usual quantity of wheat , more than the average acreage was sown with oats . They did well , producing a good crop ; as usual , those sown the ...
... bushels per acre . Oats . For reasons already suggested , and the failure to put in the usual quantity of wheat , more than the average acreage was sown with oats . They did well , producing a good crop ; as usual , those sown the ...
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... bushels to the acre on an average . Buckwheat . - Of buckwheat there was about the usual breadth sown , giving a good yield of fair quality . Root Crops . - The limited supply and high cost of farm help still operate to prevent ...
... bushels to the acre on an average . Buckwheat . - Of buckwheat there was about the usual breadth sown , giving a good yield of fair quality . Root Crops . - The limited supply and high cost of farm help still operate to prevent ...
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... bushels per acre . Our corn crop , the best harvested for five years , about seventy bushels of ears to the acre . Our grass and oats were very medium , owing to the long continued drought . Potatoes were nearly a failure ; the drought ...
... bushels per acre . Our corn crop , the best harvested for five years , about seventy bushels of ears to the acre . Our grass and oats were very medium , owing to the long continued drought . Potatoes were nearly a failure ; the drought ...
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Page 38 - 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 299 - The course of instruction shall embrace the English language and literature, mathematics, civil engineering, agricultural chemistry, animal and vegetable anatomy and physiology, the veterinary art, entomology, geology, and such other natural sciences as may be prescribed, technology, political, rural and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and especially the application of science and the mechanic arts to practical agriculture in the field.
Page 37 - ... high seminary of learning, in which the graduate of the common school can commence, pursue and finish a course of study, terminating in thorough theoretic and practical instruction in those sciences and arts which bear directly upon agriculture and kindred industrial pursuits.
Page 39 - T per cent, shall be regularly applied under the direction of the State board of agriculture to the support and maintenance of the State Agricultural 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, in order to promote...
Page 38 - 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 296 - Have the custody of all books, papers, documents, and other property which may be deposited in his office.
Page 194 - Animals that have been imperfectly nourished during growth, have their bones disproportionately large. If such deficiency of nourishment originated from a constitutional defect, which is the most frequent cause, they remain weak during life. Large bones, therefore, generally indicate an imperfection in the organs of nutrition.
Page 305 - People of the State of Michigan enact, That there shall be and is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury, the sum of...
Page 303 - The State Board of Agriculture shall have authority to sell and dispose of any portions of the swamp lands mentioned in the preceding section of this act, and use the same or the proceeds thereof for the purpose of draining, fencing, or in any manner improving such other portions of said...
Page 301 - Directors, removable at his discretion ; and he may supply vacancies that may be bv them or otherwise created. His action in these respects shall be submitted to the approval of the State Board of Directors at their next meeting.