Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Michigan and ... Annual Report of the Agricultural College Experiment Station from ..., Volume 1868Robert Smith Print. Company, State printers and binders, 1868 - Agriculture |
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Page 263 - ... the addition of manure, to bear a good crop of wheat in the following year, provided the season be favorable to its growth. This fact, indeed, is so well known that many farmers justly regard the growth of clover as one of the best preparatory operations which the land can undergo in order to its producing an abundant crop of wheat in the following year. It has further been noticed that clover mown twice, leaves the land in a better condition as regards its wheat-producing capabilities, than...
Page 459 - ... meet on the second Thursday next after the Senate and Assembly, at the annual session of the Legislature, shall have formed a quorum respectively, and at the assembly chamber, immediately after the Assembly shall have adjourned. That the said regents, at such meetings, and all others, may adjourn from time to time, not exceeding ten days at any one time.
Page 459 - If any person owning lands sought to be affected by said proceedings be a non-resident of the county, a notice such as is contemplated by this section, shall be given him by publication for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published or of general circulation in said county.
Page 263 - ... as hay, the land, far from' being less fertile than before, is peculiarly well adapted, even without the addition of manure, to bear a good crop of wheat in the following year, provided the season be favorable to its growth.
Page 475 - ... constable may receive and retain for his own use, such fees as are now or may hereafter be allowed by law for all services rendered by him in civil cases; and shall also be allowed all necessary expenses actually incurred in arresting and conveying prisoners to court or prison, which expenses shall be audited by the board of supervisors and paid out of the county treasury...
Page 263 - ... elements removed by the crops grown thereon be not by some means or other restored, it is nevertheless a fact that after a heavy crop of clover carried off as hay, the land, far from being less fertile than before, is peculiarly well adapted, even without the addition of manure, to bear...
Page 271 - The clover roots are stronger and more numerous, and more leaves fall on the ground when clover is grown for seed, than when it is mown for hay ; in consequence more nitrogen is left after clover" seed than after hay, which accounts for wheat yielding a better crop ~ after clover seed than after hay.
Page 390 - Shoemaker called for a division on the question of publishing the names, which was agreed to. The question then recurred on the adoption of the resolution designating the method by which the Viewing Committees should be chosen, and it was agreed to.
Page 484 - ... of one mill on the dollar, on the assessment roll of the county, which tax shall be collected and paid to the Treasurer of the county, in the same manner that other taxes are collected and paid.
Page 452 - States during the warm season of the year, occasioning great loss to all farmers, and possibly endangering the health of our citizens; therefore, Resolved, That this Convention earnestly recommend the enactment, by those States, of stringent laws to prevent the transit through their limits of Texas or Cherokee cattle, from the 1st day of March to the 1st day of November, inclusive.