One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix Entitled Marvels that Our Grandchildren Will See ; Or, One Hundred Years' Progress in the Future ... |
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... fact worthy of note in this con- nection , as it throws much light upon the early farming in this country , that the ex- tensive and practical cultivation of the nat- ural grasses originated here ; or , at least , was introduced here ...
... fact worthy of note in this con- nection , as it throws much light upon the early farming in this country , that the ex- tensive and practical cultivation of the nat- ural grasses originated here ; or , at least , was introduced here ...
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... fact , go much further than this , and say that a large proportion of the actual improvement that has been made in farm stock , farm im- plements , and farm products , may be traced , directly or indirectly , to the influence of the ...
... fact , go much further than this , and say that a large proportion of the actual improvement that has been made in farm stock , farm im- plements , and farm products , may be traced , directly or indirectly , to the influence of the ...
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... fact , of getting about among people engaged in the same pursuits , all helped to strengthen prejudice and foster a repugnance to try new and unused imple- ments , or to strike out into new fields of ex- periments . Besides these ...
... fact , of getting about among people engaged in the same pursuits , all helped to strengthen prejudice and foster a repugnance to try new and unused imple- ments , or to strike out into new fields of ex- periments . Besides these ...
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... fact , from remote antiquity . As specimens of important labor - saving implements of modern invention and con- struction , we may mention a large class known as horse - hoes , grubbers , cultivators , drills , seed - sowers , and ...
... fact , from remote antiquity . As specimens of important labor - saving implements of modern invention and con- struction , we may mention a large class known as horse - hoes , grubbers , cultivators , drills , seed - sowers , and ...
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... fact that in 1648 the number had been reduced to twenty thousand , we may infer that the restrictions on killing ... facts . Such encouragement being Mason , who , with Gorges , procured the And so , for the settlements along the ...
... fact that in 1648 the number had been reduced to twenty thousand , we may infer that the restrictions on killing ... facts . Such encouragement being Mason , who , with Gorges , procured the And so , for the settlements along the ...
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Page 415 - O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch — In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt!
Page 85 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 24 - It will not be doubted that, with reference to either individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population, and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage.
Page 31 - Such was the condition of things with regard to this, and most other farm implements, at the close of the last and beginning of the present century, or till within the last forty or fifty years.
Page 38 - They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third.
Page 141 - The whole interior of the Southern States was languishing and its inhabitants emigrating for want of some object to engage their attention and employ their industry, when the invention of this machine at once opened views to them which set the whole country in active motion. From childhood to age it has presented to us a lucrative employment. Individuals who were depressed with poverty and sunk in idleness have suddenly risen to wealth and respectability. Our debts have been paid off. Our capitals...
Page 322 - ... liquor too strongly charged with the tanning principle, being invariably injurious to the life and color of the leather. From this, it would seem that time is an essential element in the process of tanning, and that we cannot make up for the want of it by increasing the strength of the liquor, or raising the temperature at which the process is conducted any more than we can fatten an ox or a horse by giving him more than he can eat.
Page 36 - This American machine literally devoured the sheaves of wheat. The eye cannot follow the work which is effected between the entrance of the sheaves and the end of the operation. It is one of the greatest results which it is possible to attain. The impression which the spectacle produced on the Arab chiefs was profound.
Page 100 - Ibs. of bone dust is sufficient to supply three crops of wheat, clover, potatoes, turnips, &c., with phosphates. But the form in which they are restored to a soil does not appear to be a matter of indifference. For the more finely the bones are reduced to powder, and the more intimately they are mixed with the soil, the more easily are they assimilated.
Page 35 - The successful competitor on this occasion," says a French journal, "did its work in the most exquisite manner, not leaving a single stalk ungathered, and it discharged the grain in the most perfect shape, as if placed by hand for the binders. It finished its piece most gloriously.