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... soil , and ought to be drained . We should be able to plant considerably earlier in the spring , and would get a much more abundant yield . During the past year a fruit garden has been started which is expected to be a valuable addition ...
... soil , and ought to be drained . We should be able to plant considerably earlier in the spring , and would get a much more abundant yield . During the past year a fruit garden has been started which is expected to be a valuable addition ...
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... soil , if properly managed , will annually increase in fertility . It would have been an easy matter for us to take a limited por- tion of soil and enrich it to almost any extent . These results would only be a just criterion of the ...
... soil , if properly managed , will annually increase in fertility . It would have been an easy matter for us to take a limited por- tion of soil and enrich it to almost any extent . These results would only be a just criterion of the ...
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... soil , for its proper office as a part of the College , we have endeavored to perfect a system of experiments . This system which may now be put into operation , we have reported to you at a former meeting . We would also in addition ...
... soil , for its proper office as a part of the College , we have endeavored to perfect a system of experiments . This system which may now be put into operation , we have reported to you at a former meeting . We would also in addition ...
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... the State . This marsh can doubtless be drained sufficiently dry for a meadow or crops , to which the soil is adapted , for a sum less than one 20 SECRETARY'S REPORT - STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . dollar STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . 19.
... the State . This marsh can doubtless be drained sufficiently dry for a meadow or crops , to which the soil is adapted , for a sum less than one 20 SECRETARY'S REPORT - STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . dollar STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE . 19.
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... soil becomes warm , with good after culture , a crop of this most delicious vegetable can be obtained . Among the numerous varieties of lettuce , the Butter lettuce is superior to any we have cultivated . The Boston Curled is a good ...
... soil becomes warm , with good after culture , a crop of this most delicious vegetable can be obtained . Among the numerous varieties of lettuce , the Butter lettuce is superior to any we have cultivated . The Boston Curled is a good ...
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Page 10 - 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 122 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 121 - 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 124 - Fifth. When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised to double the minimum price, in consequence of railroad grants, they shall be computed to the States at the maximum price, and the number of acres proportionally diminished. Sixth. No State while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against the Government of the United States shall be entitled to the benefit of this act.
Page 122 - That all moneys derived from the sale of the lands aforesaid by the States to which the lands are apportioned, and from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in stocks of the United States, or of the States, or some other safe stocks, yielding not less than five per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 128 - ... 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 the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 123 - State shall cease ; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
Page 123 - If any portion of the fund invested, as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs...
Page 22 - The legislature shall encourage the promotion of intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement; and shall, as soon as practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school.
Page 127 - ... shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be provided in section fifth of this act), and 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...