Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 32Brookings Institution, 1924 - United States |
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... farming in the colonies was inevitable . There was virtually no other way to learn how to master the agricultural environment of the New World . The colonists were too aggressive to be content with the sort of agriculture which they had ...
... farming in the colonies was inevitable . There was virtually no other way to learn how to master the agricultural environment of the New World . The colonists were too aggressive to be content with the sort of agriculture which they had ...
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... farm boys , and who ardently 1 Charters and general acts of Massachusetts Bay Colony , p . 188 ( 1654 ) . 2 Brodhead , J. R. , and O'Callaghan , E. B. , Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York . encouraged ...
... farm boys , and who ardently 1 Charters and general acts of Massachusetts Bay Colony , p . 188 ( 1654 ) . 2 Brodhead , J. R. , and O'Callaghan , E. B. , Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York . encouraged ...
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Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research. encouraged experimentation with fertilizers and numerous farm ... farming and the various mechanical arts , " and the plan was soon destined to develop in the other American colonies ...
Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research. encouraged experimentation with fertilizers and numerous farm ... farming and the various mechanical arts , " and the plan was soon destined to develop in the other American colonies ...
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... farming from the deplorable condition in which the Revolutionary War had left it . Particularly inter- ested were ... farm . These organizations were followed by such institutions as the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture ...
... farming from the deplorable condition in which the Revolutionary War had left it . Particularly inter- ested were ... farm . These organizations were followed by such institutions as the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture ...
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... farm containing from one hundred acres of land , in the vicinity of Albany , to belong to the state , under the director of agriculture , and containing a variety of soil , and a permanent flowing stream of water . On this farm we will ...
... farm containing from one hundred acres of land , in the vicinity of Albany , to belong to the state , under the director of agriculture , and containing a variety of soil , and a permanent flowing stream of water . On this farm we will ...
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Page 146 - 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 145 - 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 147 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...
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Page 31 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 147 - 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 149 - That the grants of moneys authorized by this Act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purposes of said grants...
Page 158 - ... be sent to each newspaper in the States or Territories in which they are respectively located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may request the same and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said stations shall be transmitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for postage, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time prescribe.
Page 146 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
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