Report of the Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society ...B. F. Meyers, STate printer., 1877 - Agriculture |
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Page 180 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Page 174 - It is certain that a desolation like that which has overwhelmed many once beautiful and fertile regions of Europe, awaits an important part of the territory of the United States, unless prompt measures are taken to check the action of destructive causes already in operation.
Page 286 - Section 3. The board shall meet at the capital of the State, at least once in each year, and as much oftene'r as may be deemed expedient.
Page 3 - ARTICLE 2. Any person may become a member of this Society by a vote of the majority of the members present, at any meeting, and by paying into the treasury the sum of one dollar annually ; or the payment of one dollar to the treasurer, at any time, shall constitute membership, and entitle said member to a copy of the proceedings. The payment of ten dollars, at one time, will constitute life membership.
Page 114 - A straight and flat back, with never a hump ; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes. She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her neck, and small in her tail. She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail. She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin. She's a grazier's without, and a butcher's within.
Page 395 - ... to form a new progeny. This process is interminable, — and it is curious to see what a chain or net-work of plants and tubers can, with some care, be dug up in a loose soil. The only process, yet discovered, by which this grass can be extirpated, is to plough or hoe the spots in which it grows every day through the whole season. In their perpetual efforts to throw their leaves to the light, the roots become exhausted and perish, — or if a few appear the next spring, they can easily be dug...
Page 30 - The undersigned having examined the product herein described, respectfully recommends the same to the United States Centennial Commission for award, for the following reasons, viz.
Page 390 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - I went by the field of the slothful, "and by the vineyard of the man void of " understanding ; and lo it was all grown over "with thorns, and nettles had covered the face " thereof, and the stone wall was broken down.
Page 5 - ... at each regular meeting, and record the same in a book kept for that purpose. Article 2. The general fruit committee shall carefully and thoroughly investigate the subject of fruit culture in general. Each local committee of three shall collect such useful and interesting information in relation to the subject as may be in their power, and embody the same in monthly reports, to be made to the general chairman ; such reports to be by him examined and embodied in his annual and semiannual reports....