Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ..., Volume 17The Society, 1858 - Agriculture |
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... bushels of grain . He found the thrashing ground very much like a village of straw - ricks , in the midst of which was a puffing engine , making the wheels of a machine fly , while men , horses , oxen and wagons were kept busy supplying ...
... bushels of grain . He found the thrashing ground very much like a village of straw - ricks , in the midst of which was a puffing engine , making the wheels of a machine fly , while men , horses , oxen and wagons were kept busy supplying ...
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... bushels , and then no damage by the wheat midge . His crop this year ( 1857 ) yielded him twenty bushels to the acre , notwithstanding the injury the crop received from the insect . We were present at the time this wheat was being har ...
... bushels , and then no damage by the wheat midge . His crop this year ( 1857 ) yielded him twenty bushels to the acre , notwithstanding the injury the crop received from the insect . We were present at the time this wheat was being har ...
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... bushels per load ) are applied to the acre . The manure is allowed to accumulate in the different yards till spring , when it is drawn out and made into large heaps contiguous to the several yards , and then cover- ed with plaster and a ...
... bushels per load ) are applied to the acre . The manure is allowed to accumulate in the different yards till spring , when it is drawn out and made into large heaps contiguous to the several yards , and then cover- ed with plaster and a ...
Page 78
... bushels of wheat thrashed out and measured this season , is thirteen hundred and twenty , being at the rate of twenty bushels to the acre ; and I would here mention , when I first took possession of this farm my crop of wheat off of ...
... bushels of wheat thrashed out and measured this season , is thirteen hundred and twenty , being at the rate of twenty bushels to the acre ; and I would here mention , when I first took possession of this farm my crop of wheat off of ...
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... bushels per acre . The oats are usually sown on a clover sod which had been used for sheep pasture , and produced sixty bushels per acre , and were all cradled and bound up and put in shock , and then drawn in . Indian corn is planted ...
... bushels per acre . The oats are usually sown on a clover sod which had been used for sheep pasture , and produced sixty bushels per acre , and were all cradled and bound up and put in shock , and then drawn in . Indian corn is planted ...
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Page 16 - 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...
Page 374 - An insect with eleven legs is swimming in your teacup, a nondescript with nine wings is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpillar with several dozen eyes in his belly is hastening over the bread and butter ! All nature is alive, and seems to be gathering all her entomological hosts to eat you up, as you are standing, out of your coat, waistcoat, and breeches. Such are the tropics. All this reconciles us to our dews, fogs, vapours, and drizzle — to our apothecaries rushing about with gargles...
Page 45 - 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.
Page 47 - ... it is contrary to experience that a miracle should be true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false.
Page 44 - I have made a push, with all I could collect of my own, and the aid of my friends, to cast a little root in this country. I have purchased a house, with an estate of about six hundred acres of land, in Buckinghamshire, twenty-four miles from London, where I now am*. It is a place exceedingly pleasant; and I propose (God willing) to become a farmer in good earnest.
Page 374 - They will not live together, but every chigoe sets up a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, into your eyes, into your nose; you eat flies, drink flies, and breathe flies. Lizards, cockroaches, and snakes, get into the bed ; ants eat up the books ; scorpions sting you on the foot.
Page 49 - As a work of art, I know few things more pleasing to the eye, or more capable of affording scope and gratification to a taste for the beautiful, than a well-situated, well-cultivated farm. The man of refinement will hang with never-wearied gaze on a landscape by Claude or Salvator; the price of a section of the most fertile land in the West would not purchase a few square feet of the canvas on which these great artists have depicted a rural scene.
Page vii - Its object shall be to improve the condition of agriculture, the rural household and mechanic arts. Section 1. The society shall consist of such citizens of the state as shall signify in writing their wish to become members and shall pay, on subscribing, not less than one dollar and annually thereafter one dollar; and also of honorary and corresponding members. The presidents of...
Page 56 - The organization, armament, and discipline of the organized militia in the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia...
Page 741 - The females of these insects do not extrude their eggs. Clinging closely to the leaf with their heads towards its base, they die, their distended abdomens appearing like a little bag filled with eggs. The outer skin of the abdomen soon perishes and disappears, leaving the mass of eggs adhering to the side of the leaf, but completely covered over and protected by the closed wings of the dead fly.