Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society for the Year ..., Volume 17The Society, 1858 - Agriculture |
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... pine , the root , .- The trunk , The twigs , The leaves , The hemlock , The spruce and fir , The cedar and juniper , The larch or tamerack , G. 76 89 92 279 280 282 284 286 289 291 292 293 297 298 398 500 502 614 687 754 691 694 697 to ...
... pine , the root , .- The trunk , The twigs , The leaves , The hemlock , The spruce and fir , The cedar and juniper , The larch or tamerack , G. 76 89 92 279 280 282 284 286 289 291 292 293 297 298 398 500 502 614 687 754 691 694 697 to ...
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... pine ( pinus sylvestris ) , but by far the greater portion of the wood and timber is grown on the mountains skirting the valley on either side . These mountains are of moderate height , seldom over 2,000 feet high , and their tops and ...
... pine ( pinus sylvestris ) , but by far the greater portion of the wood and timber is grown on the mountains skirting the valley on either side . These mountains are of moderate height , seldom over 2,000 feet high , and their tops and ...
Page 179
... pines , and another of beech or chesnut , the lines of division are as strongly marked as between fields of grain ; some are large , some are small . The forest is but a great cultivated field ; it has none of the appearance of the ...
... pines , and another of beech or chesnut , the lines of division are as strongly marked as between fields of grain ; some are large , some are small . The forest is but a great cultivated field ; it has none of the appearance of the ...
Page 197
... pines and firs cease to grow . This fact is inter- esting as illustrating the extreme flexibility of the nature of the potatoe , its very wide range of cultivation . Although a native of tropical climates , it flourishes almost to a ...
... pines and firs cease to grow . This fact is inter- esting as illustrating the extreme flexibility of the nature of the potatoe , its very wide range of cultivation . Although a native of tropical climates , it flourishes almost to a ...
Page 199
... pine and fir will grow to the elevation of only about 4,500 feet , and the most hardy shrubs but a few hundred feet higher , while grasses will grow at the elevation of nearly 9,000 feet in sheltered places , or far above the height at ...
... pine and fir will grow to the elevation of only about 4,500 feet , and the most hardy shrubs but a few hundred feet higher , while grasses will grow at the elevation of nearly 9,000 feet in sheltered places , or far above the height at ...
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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.