Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New YorkC. van Benthuysen., 1847 - Agriculture |
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... Italy and France . Now look at the immense value of the silk business in those countries . See our valuable animal , the sheep , as it were , put out of countenance by that insignificant worm brought by the wan- dering monk from far ...
... Italy and France . Now look at the immense value of the silk business in those countries . See our valuable animal , the sheep , as it were , put out of countenance by that insignificant worm brought by the wan- dering monk from far ...
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... Italy , they halt- ed for a time at the foot of the Alps . While there , a malignant dy- sentery broke out among them , and men died with alarming rapidity . The disease baffled all the efforts of the French army physicians- ' and of ...
... Italy , they halt- ed for a time at the foot of the Alps . While there , a malignant dy- sentery broke out among them , and men died with alarming rapidity . The disease baffled all the efforts of the French army physicians- ' and of ...
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... Italy they are feeding the silk worms for me ; in Saxony they are shearing the sheep to make me clothing ; at home , powerful steam engines are spinning and weaving for me . Although my patrimony is small , I have post coaches running ...
... Italy they are feeding the silk worms for me ; in Saxony they are shearing the sheep to make me clothing ; at home , powerful steam engines are spinning and weaving for me . Although my patrimony is small , I have post coaches running ...
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... Italy and France , fine crops of grass cannot be raised . In the neighborhood of Avignon in France , they find it necessary to irrigate even their potatoe fields . The inhabitants of Tuscany irrigate all their crops , wheat , beans ...
... Italy and France , fine crops of grass cannot be raised . In the neighborhood of Avignon in France , they find it necessary to irrigate even their potatoe fields . The inhabitants of Tuscany irrigate all their crops , wheat , beans ...
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... Italy , in the neighborhood of Rome , once affording food for hundreds of thousands , is now sterile . Such will be the case in the whole of Europe as well as in this country , if the present sys- tem of arranging drains in all the ...
... Italy , in the neighborhood of Rome , once affording food for hundreds of thousands , is now sterile . Such will be the case in the whole of Europe as well as in this country , if the present sys- tem of arranging drains in all the ...
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Page 308 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 225 - Among the means which have been employed to this end none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards (composed of proper characters) charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
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Page 295 - ... polished after the similitude of a palace: 13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Page 225 - It will not be doubted that, with reference either to 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 snd more an object of public patronage.
Page 416 - The greatest labour they take, is in planting their corne, for the country naturally is overgrowne with wood. To prepare the ground they bruise the barke of the trees neare the root, then do they scortch the roots with fire that they grow no more.
Page 287 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Page 303 - I am lodged In a house that affords me conveniences and comforts which even a king could not command some centuries ago. There are ships crossing the seas in every direction, to bring what is useful to me from all parts of the earth. In China, men are gathering the tea-leaf for me ; in America, they are planting cotton for me ; in the West India islands...
Page 417 - Temmes, then pound againe the great, and so separating by dashing their hand in the basket, receave the flower in a platter made of wood scraped to that forme with burning and shels. Tempering this flower with water, they make it either in cakes, covering them with ashes till they...
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