Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ..., Volume 17The Society, 1858 - Agriculture |
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... margins and the more gentle slopes of the southern part , is devoted to the cultivation of the vine . Besides this , the principal crops cultivated are wheat , oats , barley , rye , spelt , turnips , potatoes , sugar beets , tobacco ...
... margins and the more gentle slopes of the southern part , is devoted to the cultivation of the vine . Besides this , the principal crops cultivated are wheat , oats , barley , rye , spelt , turnips , potatoes , sugar beets , tobacco ...
Page 703
... margin , which is more distinct in this than in either of the preceding species , and produces a slight undulation of the outer edge , this edge being almost rectilinear with the opposite sides parallel with each other two - thirds of ...
... margin , which is more distinct in this than in either of the preceding species , and produces a slight undulation of the outer edge , this edge being almost rectilinear with the opposite sides parallel with each other two - thirds of ...
Page 705
... margin being burnished coppery red . On each wing cover are about eight rows of large deep punctures placed closely together , and some of them united or con- fluent , and between each of these rows is a series of smaller round ...
... margin being burnished coppery red . On each wing cover are about eight rows of large deep punctures placed closely together , and some of them united or con- fluent , and between each of these rows is a series of smaller round ...
Page 716
... margin of this declivity having four or five small projecting teeth upon each side . It is usually chestnut colored , with the antennæ and legs paler , but individuals may be met with of the following varieties : Variety a , nigricollis ...
... margin of this declivity having four or five small projecting teeth upon each side . It is usually chestnut colored , with the antennæ and legs paler , but individuals may be met with of the following varieties : Variety a , nigricollis ...
Page 721
... margin on each side with five or six small unequal teeth . Appearing mostly in the month of May . This species was originally named exesus , or the excavated bark - beetle , in allusion to the tips of its wing covers , in the old ...
... margin on each side with five or six small unequal teeth . Appearing mostly in the month of May . This species was originally named exesus , or the excavated bark - beetle , in allusion to the tips of its wing covers , in the old ...
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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.