Agriculture of Maine: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture, Volume 9, Part 1864 |
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... produce them at home . This cursory view brings us down to a day not twenty years removed from the present . Agriculture had , through all that time , if not through the force , certainly through the lead of circumstances , been ...
... produce them at home . This cursory view brings us down to a day not twenty years removed from the present . Agriculture had , through all that time , if not through the force , certainly through the lead of circumstances , been ...
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... produce , the yield of which appeared to be considerably increased by the application of salt . He says further , that " applied to grain crops on light soils , at the rate of five hundred or six hundred pounds to the acre , salt ...
... produce , the yield of which appeared to be considerably increased by the application of salt . He says further , that " applied to grain crops on light soils , at the rate of five hundred or six hundred pounds to the acre , salt ...
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... produces more than the dairy , two - thirds as much as the cotton , and more than one - half as much as the hay crop . The Commissioner estimates five persons to a family , and three gardens to every four families , producing fifteen ...
... produces more than the dairy , two - thirds as much as the cotton , and more than one - half as much as the hay crop . The Commissioner estimates five persons to a family , and three gardens to every four families , producing fifteen ...
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... producing but half of this amount , then we are sustaining a loss which we cannot well afford . How this amount ... produced the strawberry , rasp- berry , blackberry , and some of the other small fruits , in such abundance that any ...
... producing but half of this amount , then we are sustaining a loss which we cannot well afford . How this amount ... produced the strawberry , rasp- berry , blackberry , and some of the other small fruits , in such abundance that any ...
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... produced , not only by all our farmers in the older portions of our State , but by every person who owns a few rods of ground , no matter what his calling may be , especially clergymen , mechanics and merchants , who so much need the ...
... produced , not only by all our farmers in the older portions of our State , but by every person who owns a few rods of ground , no matter what his calling may be , especially clergymen , mechanics and merchants , who so much need the ...
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Page 184 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 178 - 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...
Page 203 - States, so that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied without any diminution whatever to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. SECT. 4. And be it further enacted, 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...
Page 203 - ... first. 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, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever...
Page 202 - 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...
Page 202 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than onequarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page 202 - ... 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...
Page 203 - That the grant of land and land scrip hereby authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several States shall be signified by legislative acts: First.
Page 204 - And be it further enacted. That the governors of the several States to which scrip shall be issued under this act shall be required to report annually to Congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same and what appropriation has been made of the proceeds.
Page 203 - 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; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished...