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... success . I shall seek to increase its practical value and extend its influence , and hope it may continue to receive the liberal and fostering attention of Congress , and that those engaged in agri- culture may be thereby stimulated to ...
... success . I shall seek to increase its practical value and extend its influence , and hope it may continue to receive the liberal and fostering attention of Congress , and that those engaged in agri- culture may be thereby stimulated to ...
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... success , have been of inestimable value , not only improving qualities , but also increasing the crop productions ... successful operation . For the purpose of ascertaining whether among the many valued fruits of tropical regions there ...
... success , have been of inestimable value , not only improving qualities , but also increasing the crop productions ... successful operation . For the purpose of ascertaining whether among the many valued fruits of tropical regions there ...
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... success . The tables of statistics resulting from these labors are applied to important uses - foiling the designs of speculators and correcting their misrepresentations ; enabling the farmer to obtain the worth of his cereals , wool ...
... success . The tables of statistics resulting from these labors are applied to important uses - foiling the designs of speculators and correcting their misrepresentations ; enabling the farmer to obtain the worth of his cereals , wool ...
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... success in the adaptation of plants to a climate less warm than their own will essentially depend . The destructive effects of frosts upon the succulent parts of plants may thus be accounted for independently of the mechanical expansion ...
... success in the adaptation of plants to a climate less warm than their own will essentially depend . The destructive effects of frosts upon the succulent parts of plants may thus be accounted for independently of the mechanical expansion ...
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... successful cultivation . In cultivating garden vegetables great facilities are presented for a frequent change of crop , and there is , also , a wide field for experiment in order to ascer- tain the kinds best suited to succeed one ...
... successful cultivation . In cultivating garden vegetables great facilities are presented for a frequent change of crop , and there is , also , a wide field for experiment in order to ascer- tain the kinds best suited to succeed one ...
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Page 140 - ... 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 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...
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Page 140 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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...
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Page 255 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 140 - An Act to provide for the further development of agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of the Act entitled '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 246 - The earth is fast becoming an unfit home for its noblest inhabitant, and another era of equal human crime and human improvidence, and of like duration with that through which traces of that crime and that improvidence extend, would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.
Page 550 - The removal, for a single summer night, of the aqueous vapour from the atmosphere which covers England, would be attended by the destruction of every plant which a freezing temperature could kill. In Sahara, where ' the soil is fire and the wind is flame,' the refrigeration at night in often painful to bear.