Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Issue 8 |
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Page 49 - 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 268 - ... 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, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 49 - ... that the moneys so invested 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...
Page 49 - 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 5 per centum upon the par value of said stocks...
Page 44 - Agriculture feeds us ; to a great degree it clothes us ; without it we could not have manufactures, and we should not have commerce. These all stand together, but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that largest is agriculture.
Page 117 - ... and finally, relieving the farmer and his family from the drudgery of the manufacture and care of cheese. \ It is not pretended that a better quality of cheese can be made at the factory than in families, but that it is quite as fine as the beet, and therefore above the average of that manufactured in email parcels.
Page 54 - Formation and composition of soils ; the relations of air and moisture to vegetable growth; connection of heat, light and electricity, with growth of plants ; nature and...
Page 120 - ... cows,) a committee is appointed to look further into the matter, to visit factories, and get all the information on the subject that can be had. A favorable report from the committee being had, they then organize, choose directors, and adopt some general rules or plan for the guidance of the association. The next step will be the selection of some experienced cheese maker as superintendent, and the place for the erection of the factory building.
Page 268 - Congress, the proceeds from the sale of these lands to be used for "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 183 - We should especially avoid pruning at that period in spring when the buds are swelling and the sap is in full flow, as the loss of sap by bleeding is very injurious to most trees, and in some brings on a serious and incurable canker in the limbs.