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... Applying in Autumn and Spring , 129 116 , 161 -99 , 131 and Ashes for Muck Swamps , - 261 Night Soil , Preparation of , 15 , 80 , 181 80 , 181 Refuse Pulp from Cider Mills for , 294 Surface Application of , .. 338 , 363 , 379 ... 51 ...
... Applying in Autumn and Spring , 129 116 , 161 -99 , 131 and Ashes for Muck Swamps , - 261 Night Soil , Preparation of , 15 , 80 , 181 80 , 181 Refuse Pulp from Cider Mills for , 294 Surface Application of , .. 338 , 363 , 379 ... 51 ...
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... applying to agricultural purposes as much as possible of the valuable manuring matters of our towns must be insisted on , at the same time they believed that modern practice does not tend to exhaustion in anything like the degree that ...
... applying to agricultural purposes as much as possible of the valuable manuring matters of our towns must be insisted on , at the same time they believed that modern practice does not tend to exhaustion in anything like the degree that ...
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... applied , and the third or fourth year after the dressing yielded for the first time a good crop of fruit . This present season is the third year that they have been in good bearing ; and , owing partially to a careful pruning of ...
... applied , and the third or fourth year after the dressing yielded for the first time a good crop of fruit . This present season is the third year that they have been in good bearing ; and , owing partially to a careful pruning of ...
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... applied , add at least fifty per cent . annually to the hay crop of that town , and this too with- out the addition of farm - yard manure . Beside this , it renders the farmer who judiciously irrigates his grass lands , independent of ...
... applied , add at least fifty per cent . annually to the hay crop of that town , and this too with- out the addition of farm - yard manure . Beside this , it renders the farmer who judiciously irrigates his grass lands , independent of ...
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... applied , that gives the profit . " The farmer with more land than he can properly cultivate , is doing as wisely in his business , as the merchant who rents a large store which he has not goods to fill , from want of capital to ...
... applied , that gives the profit . " The farmer with more land than he can properly cultivate , is doing as wisely in his business , as the merchant who rents a large store which he has not goods to fill , from want of capital to ...
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Page 239 - 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 227 - ... 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 227 - 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 227 - ... that a sum not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by any State under the provisions of this act may be expended for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the respective legislatures of said States.
Page 227 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such 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 227 - Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the land officers shall receive the same fees for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act as is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under existing laws; Provided, their maximum compensation shall not be thereby increased.
Page 227 - ... moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by the States to which they may belong, out of the treasury of said States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
Page 227 - 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: And provided further.
Page 227 - Fourth. An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their costs and results, and such other matters, including State industrial and economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free...
Page 227 - 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...